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Saturday, May 27, 2017
Mapping ancient Syriac lives and literature
SYRIAC WATCH: As Turmoil Displaces Middle Eastern Christians, Scholars Work to Preserve Syriac Culture (Mitch Teich, NPR News in Milwaukee). An excellent audio interview about Syriac literature with Dan Schwartz, Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent, and Nathan Gibson. They were attending Mapping Ancient Lives & Social Networks: A Digital Workshop at Marquette University last week.