CUA Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literatures

Kevin Ball successfully defended his dissertation entitled "The Parables of Matthew in the East Syriac Exegetical Tradition". Congratulations Dr. Ball!

Mehari Worku successfully defended his dissertation entitled "15th-century Ethiopian Orthodox Ecclesiology in Giyorgis of Sägla’s Mäṣhafä Mǝsṭir." Congratulations Dr. Worku!

Last week was a busy week in the Semitics department, as we had three students successfully defend their dissertations. I'm going to post them in separate posts, because I'm not really adept at Facebook.

The first student is Jamie Duguid, whose dissertation is entitled "Metaphors for Nothingness in Isaiah 40-66". Congratulations Dr. Duguid!

I apologize for the late posting, but the CUA Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literatures was so very happy to host Prof. Tawny Holm of the Pennsylvania State University on January 31st for the 11th Annual Hyvernat Lecture. She enlightened us all on the topic "Wandering Aramaic: Western Dialect(s) in Papyrus Amherst 63".

Congratulations to Paul Major for successfully defending his dissertation, entitled “Prepositional Protoscenes, Non-Spatial Extensions, and the Biblical Hebrew Verb KPR”.

Congratulations Dr. Major!

Congratulations to Lance Martin for successfully defending his dissertation, entitled “The Syriac Life of Shenoute: Text and Context”.

Congratulations Dr. Martin!

Dr. Christian Askeland, Senior Researcher at the Museum of the Bible, delivered the 2023 Annual Bellet Lecture at the Catholic University of America. The lecture, which took place on Wednesday, Oct. 25th, was entitled "Fakes, Forgeries, and Felonies: Cautionary Tales Related to Greek and Coptic Papyri"

Congratulations to Dr. Edward Cook on the publication of his new book "Biblical Aramaic and Related Dialects: An Introduction" with Cambridge University Press. This book will be a standard reference work for many years to come. For more information, please follow the link below. Congratulations!

https://www.cambridge.org/highereducation/books/biblical-aramaic-and-related-dialects/5F79B5258F1E8F157F195E243458A750

Congratulations to Dr. Aaron Butts, Andrew W. Mellon Chair of Early Christian Studies and Associate Professor in the Semitics Department, that his and Simcha Gross’s volume The History of the 'Slave of Christ’: From Jewish Child to Christian Martyr was awarded Honorable Mention for the 2022 Mediterranean Seminar Prize for the Best Source Edition, Book Translation, or Essay Collection.

Congratulations to Dr. Aaron Butts, Andrew W. Mellon Chair of Early Christian Studies and Associate Professor in the Semitics Department, on the publication of his pedagogical reference work, Ethiopic Paradigms. A Summary of Classical Ethiopic (Gǝˁǝz) Morphology (Leuven: Peeters, 2022).

https://www.peeters-leuven.be/detail.php?search_key=9789042944862