We have a lot of new collections from Gorgias Press on the way. Here's one:Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies Collection (37 vols.)
Over $5,700 worth of scholarship on Eastern Christianity, for only $444.95 on pre-pub.
More to come...
Thanks, Gabe!
There seems to be several French books in there. It should be tagged with French as well as English.
I hope some of that "more" includes Orthodox base packages.
I have wanted more from Gorgias for a long time, but I think that I have to wait until the collections are broken, I want some of the like Rubin's book, the two introductions by Brock, etc.
Would it be possible to get more syriac texts? Gorgias has plenty of books where a scholar has edited some church father's text, added some notes and a translation.
Maybe even Antioch Bible?
That will be on Pre-Pub soon.
A few more now on Pre-Pub:
Some of these should be on the Verbum site for Eastern Rite Catholics ... Remember EVERY Orthodox Church has a uniate double. However, there is at least one Eastern Rite that doesn't have an Orthodox double (the Melkites I believe).
Remember EVERY Orthodox Church has a uniate double. However, there is at least one Eastern Rite that doesn't have an Orthodox double (the Melkites I believe).
The Maronites on the other hand maintain they'd been Catholic and in union with the Pope since their beginnings around the 4th century or so; there's no Orthodox 'equivalent' of them.
Thanks for the correction - I was questioning my memory when I said Melkite. I believe Maronite is correct.
What about Sokoloff or Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage?
Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage?
On its way. Look for it in the next week or so.
Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage
Thanks for the heads up Gabe.
Thanks!
Why don't you split the OT from the NT in the Antioch Bible? It makes the deal very unattractive.
Has any of these seen the light? Or are they now availible anymore?
For sure Antioch ... I was lucky to get that. Afterward, Gorgias disappeared into the sands of Logosian time. Publishers can disappear.
Besides the Antioch Bible, these items from Gorgias are in my library and may still be available:
Gorgias Press w/oAntioch Bible
Kiraz, George Anton. Lexical Tools to the Syriac New Testament. Piscataway, NJ: Georgias Press, 2002.
Burkitt, F. Crawford. Early Christianity Outside the Roman Empire. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2002.
Wright, William. Lectures on the Comparative Grammar of the Semitic Languages. Edited by William Robertson Smith. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2002.
Wright, William. A Short History of Syriac Literature. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2001.
O’Leary, De Lacy. The Syriac Church and Fathers. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2002.
Murdock, James, trans. The Syriac New Testament: Translated into English from the Syriac Peshitto Version. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2001.
Hill, J. Hamlyn, trans. The Earliest Life of Christ: The Diatessaron of Tatian. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2001.
Wilson, E. Jan. The Old Syriac Gospels, Studies and Comparative Translations: Syriac Text. Translated by George A. Kiraz. Louaize, Lebanon;Piscataway, NJ: Notre Dame University;Gorgias Press, 2003.
Wilson, E. Jan. The Old Syriac Gospels, Studies and Comparative Translations. Translated by George A. Kiraz. Louaize, Lebanon;Piscataway, NJ: Notre Dame University;Gorgias Press, 2003.
Brock, Sebastian P. The Bible in the Syriac Tradition. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2002.
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and may still be available:
Oddly, the only survivor was Murdock's Peshitta translation from Gorgias. It's priced at $62, while Murdock's Peshitta translation from Logos is $12.50. For $50 extra, you get Kiraz's short intro. Even the syriac notes exactly match (slightly different font). Maybe they kept Gorgias as a foot-in-the-door.
The really sad loss was the Old Syriac comparisons, and the annotated Diatesseron (which had ECF comparison translation popups).
Thanks for your answers! It's sad nothing of all that is availible. Did Gorgias step back or FL? (I don't understand why a publisher wouldn't like to see his books sold...)Syriac doesn't seem to be Logos' favourite child anyway.
My memory may not be reliable as I could not find an old post confirming it but I think it was Gorgias that stepped back ... and with even less certainty, I think there was a merger of two Orthodox presses at the same time.
Syriac doesn't seem to be Logos' favourite child anyway.
If you are not US American, you probably underestimate how little most American Christians know about Eastern and Oriental Orthodoxy ... it is slowly improving but . . . anything any of us can do to broaden the perspective to include world Christianity, I strong support.
A bit of history. When I contacted St. Vladamir's Seminary Press to find out who I should ask FL to contact, the "press" consisted of a single priest who had two other major responsibilities. The last contact I had they were up to his having an assistant who worked regular hours for the press. So as we try to get some of these small presses on board, there is a genuine success story to serve as a model.
I think you don't even have to be interested in Orthodox christianity (but we/ the "latin" christianity could learn a lot) to appreciate a common history in the early church and the value of syriac scriptural/textual traditions. But even in Germany (the philology was strong here...once), I didn't know more than a handfull students of theology who learned more ("old") languages than they had to.
The syriac content in Logos may satisfy a NT scholar, who wants to look up the variants of a greek apparatus.
Yes, we have Leiden Peshitta, Nöldeke and the Syriac English Dictionary, but...
I still have hope for the Thesaurus.
