Conferences, Presentations, and Publications

Below I have listed the presentations, workshops, and publications that I have participated in and produced since my arrival at ACU in the fall of 2015.

Conferences, Workshops, and Other Presentations

  • “A Fragment of an Anonymous Muslim-Christian Dialogue.” A paper presented at the XIII Symposium Syriacum. July 7, 2022 | Paris, France
  • “‘Why Was It Necessary?’: John of Dara’s Defense of the Death of Jesus.” A paper presented at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting. November 22, 2021 | San Antonio, TX
  • “‘The Friend of Jesus’: Jacob of Serugh’s Version of the Abgar Legend.” A paper presented for The Year of Jacob of Serugh († 521) conference. August 18, 2021 | An online conference with international reach held monthly during the year 2021 (see my recorded lecture here)
  • “Echoes of Inter-religious Debate in the Writings of John of Dara.” A paper presented at the Eighth North American Syriac Symposium. June 16-19, 2019 | Brown University, Providence, RI
  • “Contact, Conversation, and Conversion: Early Islam and Christianity.” CSART lecture. February 6, 2018 | ACU
  • “An Early Syriac Apologia Crucis: Mēmrā 54 ‘On the Finding of the Holy Cross.'” A paper presented at the Narsai Workshop. June 2017 | Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
  • Mapping Ancient Lives & Social Networks: A Workshop and Collaborative Digital Publication. Workshop participant. May 23-24, 2017 | Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI.
    This digital humanities workshop supported the work of the syriaca.org project.

Publications

BOOKS

Jacob of Sarug’s Homilies on Abgar and Addai. English translation and introduction by Kelli Bryant Gibson. Syriac edition by Roger Akhrass and Imad Syryany. Gorgias Press, forthcoming (proofs received September 6; publication expected in late 2022).

BOOK CHAPTERS

  • “Dionysius bar Salibi, Commentary on the Cross.” (English translation with introduction.) Pages 201-204 in The Bloomsbury Reader in Christian-Muslim Relations. Edited by David Thomas. Bloomsbury, 2022.
  • “‘The Friend of Jesus’: Jacob of Serugh’s Version of the Abgar Legend.” To be published in a collection of lectures given during the Year of Jacob of Serugh († 521) Conference. Edited by Armando Elkoury and Robert Kitchen. The Hidden Pearl Press, forthcoming (paper submitted February 2022; publication expected 2023). See a letter from the editor here.
  • English translation of Narsai’s Mēmrā 54: On the Finding of the Holy Cross. To be published in Narsai: The Homilies. Volume 3. Edited by Aaron Butts, Kristian Heal, and Robert Kitchen. Peeters, forthcoming (submitted June 2020, publication TBD). See a letter from the editor here.
  • “”An Early Syriac Apologia Crucis: Mēmrā 54 ‘On the Finding of the Holy Cross.'” Pages 117-132 in Narsai: Rethinking His Work and World. Edited by Aaron Butts, Kristian Heal, and Robert Kitchen. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020. 

BOOK REVIEWS

Aho Shemunkasho, ed. and tr. John of Dara, On the Resurrection of Human Bodies. (Gorgias Press, 2020). Pp. ix + 597; $165. Hugoye 25.2 (2022). (View online here.)

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