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I am a student of Syriac at the
Department of Eastern Christianity at the Oriental Institute, University of Oxford
. My doctoral thesis is on the verse homilies (
ܡܐܡܪ̈ܐ
,
mēmrē
) of Narsai, fifth-century master of the schools of Edessa and Nisibis.
I am Chaplain of
Hertford College, Oxford
.
I am Wiki Editor of
WikiSyriaca: The Syriac Studies Encyclopedia
, and am editing the forthcoming
Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage
.
I am the developer of
XeSyriac
, a free, professional typesetting system for Syriac using
XeLaTeX
.
copyright © Gareth Hughes 2008–2013