Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
Keywords
BYU, Oxford, library, texts, Syriac literature
Abstract
Following the success of the BYU Dead Seas Scrolls Electronic Library (2nd ed., Brill, 2006), the Maxwell Institute’s Center for the Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts (CPART) has initiated a project to produce an electronic library of ancient Syriac literature. Syriac is a dialect of Aramaic, the language of Jesus and his disciples. Syriac was the language spoken by ancient Christians throughout the Middle East, from Syria to India, and a large and important body of early Christian literature is preserved in it. Electronic libraries have been produced for Greek, Latin and other ancient literatures, but this will be the first project to do the same for Syriac.
Recommended Citation
(2007)
"BYU and Oxford Brookes University Collaborate on Transcription of Syriac Texts,"
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship: Vol. 27:
No.
6, Article 5.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/insights/vol27/iss6/5