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Sebastian Paul Brock, FBA (born 1938, London) is a renowned British scholar, university professor, and a world-renowned expert in the field of academic studies of Classical Syriac language and Classical Syriac literature. His research also encompasses various aspects of cultural history of Syriac Christianity. He is generally acknowledged as one of the foremost academics in the field of Syriac studies,^[1] and one of the most prominent scholars in the wider field of Aramaic studies. He is a former Reader in Syriac studies at the University of Oxford's Oriental Institute and an emeritus fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford.^[2]

Brock studied at Eton College, and completed his BA degree in Classics and Oriental Languages (Hebrew and Aramaic) at the Trinity College (University of Cambridge). In 1966, he became Doctor of Philosophy at Oxford. He was Assistant Lecturer, and then Lecturer, at the University of Birmingham (Department of Theology) from 1964 tp 1967. He continued his academic career as Lecturer in Hebrew, and then Lecturer in Hebrew and Aramaic, at Cambridge University, from 1967 to 1974. He was Lecturer in Aramaic and Syriac, and then Reader in Syriac Studies, at Oxford University, from 1974 to 2003. Since 2003, he is Emeritus Reader in Syriac Studies and Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford.^[3]

He is the recipient of a number of honorary doctorates and has been awarded the Medal of Saint Ephrem the Syrian by the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch and the Leverhulme prize and medal of the British Academy. He is a widely published author on Syriac topics.

Personal life

Brock is married to Helen Hughes-Brock, an archaeologist specialising in Minoan Crete and Mycenaean Greece.

Honours

Brock is a Fellow of the British Academy. He was the recipient of the 2009 Leverhulme Medal and Prize awarded by the British Academy.^[4] On 21 June he received the PhD Honoris Causa at EPHE in Paris.

Works

Brock, Sebastian P. (1967). "Greek Words in the Syriac Gospels (Vet. and Pe.)". Le Muséon. 80: 389-426.

Brock, Sebastian P. (1970). "A Calendar Attributed to Jacob of Edessa". Parole de l'Orient. 1 (2): 415-429.
Brock, Sebastian P. (1971). "A Fragment of the Acta Pilati in Christian Palestinian Aramaic". The Journal of Theological Studies. 22 (1): 157-159. doi:10.1093/jts/XXII.I.157. JSTOR 23962351.
Brock, Sebastian P. (1973). "An Early Syriac Life of Maximus the Confessor". Analecta Bollandiana. 91 (3-4): 299-346. doi:10.1484/J.ABOL.4.01267.
Brock, Sebastian P. (1973). "A Syriac Fragment on the Sixth Council". Oriens Christianus. 57: 63-71. ISBN 9783447015332.
Brock, Sebastian P. (1975). "Some New Letters of the Patriarch Severos". Studia Patristica. 12: 17-24. ISBN 9780802805812.
Brock, Sebastian P. (1975). "Some Aspects of Greek Words in Syriac". Synkretismus im syrisch-persischen Kulturgebiet. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. pp. 80-108. ISBN 9783525823743.
Brock, Sebastian P. (1976). "Syriac Sources for Seventh-Century History". Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. 2: 17-36. doi:10.1179/030701376790206207.
Brock, Sebastian P. (1977). "Greek into Syriac and Syriac into Greek". Journal of the Syriac Academy. 3: 406-422.
Brock, Sebastian P. (1979). "Aspects of Translation Technique in Antiquity". Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies. 20 (1): 69-87.
Brock, Sebastian P. (1979). "Jacob of Edessa's Discourse on the Myron". Oriens Christianus. 63: 20-36.
Brock, Sebastian P. (1979). The Holy Spirit in the Syrian Baptismal Tradition (1st ed.). Poona: Anita Printers.
- Brock, Sebastian P. (1998) [1979]. The Holy Spirit in the Syrian Baptismal Tradition (2nd ed.). Kottayam: Jyothi Book House.
- Brock, Sebastian P. (2008) [1979]. The Holy Spirit in the Syrian Baptismal Tradition (3rd ed.). Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. ISBN 9781593338442.
Brock, Sebastian P. (1980). "An Introduction to Syriac Studies". Horizons in Semitic Studies: Articles for the Student. Birmingham: University of Birmingham. pp. 1-33. ISBN 9780704403741.
- Brock, Sebastian P. (2006) [1980]. An Introduction to Syriac Studies (2nd revised ed.). Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. ISBN 9781593333492.
  - Brock, Sebastian P. (2017) [1980]. An Introduction to Syriac Studies (3rd revised ed.). Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. ISBN 9781463207137.
Brock, Sebastian P. (1983). "Towards a History of Syriac Translation Technique". III Symposium Syriacum 1980. Roma: Pontificium institutum studiorum orientalium. pp. 1-14.
Brock, Sebastian P. (1982). "From Antagonism to Assimilation: Syriac Attitudes to Greek Learning". East of Byzantium: Syria and Armenia in the Formative Period. Washington: Dumbarton Oaks, Center for Byzantine Studies. pp. 17-34. ISBN 9780884021049.
Brock, Sebastian P. (1982). "Christians in the Sasanian Empire: A Case of Divided Loyalties". Studies in Church History. 18: 1-19. doi:10.1017/S0424208400016004. ISBN 9780631180609.
Brock, Sebastian P. (1984). Syriac Perspectives on Late Antiquity. London: Variorum Reprints. ISBN 9780860781479.
Brock, Sebastian P. (1985). The Luminous Eye: The Spiritual World Vision of St. Ephrem (1st ed.). Rome: Centre for Indian and Inter religious Studies.
- Brock, Sebastian P. (1992) [1985]. The Luminous Eye: The Spiritual World Vision of Saint Ephrem (2nd revised ed.). Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications. ISBN 9780879075248.
Brock, Sebastian P. (1985). "The Christology of the Church of the East in the Synods of the Fifth to Early Seventh Centuries: Preliminary Considerations and Materials". Aksum, Thyateira: A Festschrift for Archbishop Methodios of Thyateira and Great Britain. London: Thyateira House. pp. 125-142.
- Brock, Sebastian P. (1996). "The Christology of the Church of the East". ? ? ?. : . pp. 159-179. ISBN 9785857590379.
- Brock, Sebastian P. (1999). "The Christology of the Church of the East in the Synods of the Fifth to Early Seventh Centuries: Preliminary Considerations and Materials". Doctrinal Diversity: Varieties of Early Christianity. New York and London: Garland Publishing. pp. 281-298. ISBN 9780815330714.
Brock, Sebastian P. (1985). "A Monothelete Florilegium in Syriac". After Chalcedon: Studies in Theology and Church History. Leuven: Peeters Publishers. pp. 35-45. ISBN 9789070192150.
Brock, Sebastian P. (1986). "Two Sets of Monothelete Questions to the Maximianists". Orientalia Lovaniensia Periodica. 17: 119-140.
Brock, Sebastian P. (1986). "An Early Syriac Commentary on the Liturgy". The Journal of Theological Studies. 37 (2): 387-403. doi:10.1093/jts/37.2.387. JSTOR 23962452.
Brock, Sebastian P.; Harvey, Susan A. (1987). Holy Women of the Syrian Orient. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520057050.
- Brock, Sebastian P.; Harvey, Susan A. (1998) [1987]. Holy Women of the Syrian Orient. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520213661.
Brock, Sebastian P. (1989). "Three Thousand Years of Aramaic Literature". Aram Periodical. 1 (1): 11-23.
Brock, Sebastian P. (1989). "Some Observations on the Use of Classical Syriac in the Late Twentieth Century". Journal of Semitic Studies. 34 (2): 363-375. doi:10.1093/jss/XXXIV.2.363.
Brock, Sebastian P. (1990). "Diachronic Aspects of Syriac Word Formation: An Aid for Dating Anonymous Texts". V Symposium Syriacum 1988. Roma: Pontificium institutum studiorum orientalium. pp. 321-330.
Brock, Sebastian P. (1992). Studies in Syriac Christianity: History, Literature, and Theology. Aldershot: Variorum. ISBN 9780860783053.
Brock, Sebastian P. (1992). "Eusebius and Syriac Christianity". Eusebius, Christianity, and Judaism. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. pp. 212-234. ISBN 0814323618.
- Brock, Sebastian P. (1999). "Eusebius and Syriac Christianity". Doctrinal Diversity: Varieties of Early Christianity. New York and London: Garland Publishing. pp. 258-280. ISBN 9780815330714.
Brock, Sebastian P. (1994). "Greek and Syriac in Late Antique Syria". Literacy and Power in the Ancient World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 149-160, 234-235. ISBN 9780521587365.
Brock, Sebastian P. (1994). "Syriac Studies in the Last Three Decades: Some Reflections". VI Symposium Syriacum 1992. Roma: Pontificium institutum studiorum orientalium. pp. 13-29. ISBN 9788872103050.
Brock, Sebastian P. (1994). "The Development of Syriac Studies". The Edward Hincks Bicentenary Lectures. Dublin: University College. pp. 94-113. ISBN 9781898473152.
Brock, Sebastian P. (1996). Syriac Studies: A Classified Bibliography, 1960-1990. Kaslik: Parole de l'Orient.
Brock, Sebastian P. (1996). "Greek Words in Syriac: Some General Features". Studia Classica Israelica. 15: 251-262.
Brock, Sebastian P. (1996). "The 'Nestorian' Church: A Lamentable Misnomer" (PDF). Bulletin of the John Rylands Library. 78 (3): 23-35. doi:10.7227/BJRL.78.3.3.
Brock, Sebastian P. (1997). A Brief Outline of Syriac Literature. Kottayam: St. Ephrem Ecumenical Research Institute.
Brock, Sebastian P. (1997). "The Transmission of Ephrem's madrashe in the Syriac Liturgical Tradition". Studia Patristica. 33: 490-505. ISBN 9789068318685.
Brock, Sebastian P. (1998). "The Baptismal Anointings According to the Anonymous Expositio Officiorum" (PDF). Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies. 1 (1): 5-17.
Brock, Sebastian P. (1998). "Syriac Culture, 337-425". The Cambridge Ancient History. 13. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 708-719. ISBN 9780521302005.
Brock, Sebastian P. (1999). From Ephrem to Romanos: Interactions Between Syriac and Greek in Late Antiquity. Aldershot: Ashgate. ISBN 9780860788003.
Brock, Sebastian P. (1999). "St. Ephrem in the Eyes of Later Syriac Liturgical Tradition" (PDF). Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies. 2 (1): 5-25.
Brock, Sebastian P. (1999). "The Importance of the Syriac Traditions in Ecumenical Dialogue on Christology". Christian Orient. 20: 189-197.
Brock, Sebastian P. (2000). "Greek Words in Ephrem and Narsai: A Comparative Sampling". Aram Periodical. 12 (1-2): 439-449. doi:10.2143/ARAM.12.0.504480.
Brock, Sebastian P. (2002). Kiraz, George (ed.). "Some Basic Annotation to The Hidden Pearl: The Syrian Orthodox Church and its Ancient Aramaic Heritage, I-III (Rome, 2001)" (PDF). Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies. 5 (1): 63-112. doi:10.31826/9781463214104-005. ISBN 9781463214104.
Brock, Sebastian P. (2002). Panicker, Geevarghese; Thekeparampil, Rev. Jacob; Kalakudi, Abraham (eds.). "Syriac Dialogue - An Example from the Past". The Harp. 15: 305-318. doi:10.31826/9781463233037-026. ISBN 9781463233037.
Brock, Sebastian P. (2003). "Some Diachronic Features of Classical Syriac". Hamlet on a Hill: Semitic and Greek Studies Presented to Professor T. Muraoka on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Leuven: Peeters Publishers. pp. 95-111. ISBN 9789042912151.
Brock, Sebastian P. (2003). "The Changing Faces of St Ephrem as Read in the West". Abba: The Tradition of Orthodoxy in the West. Crestwood: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press. pp. 65-80. ISBN 9780881412482.
Brock, Sebastian P. (2004). "The Earliest Syriac Literature". The Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 161-172. ISBN 9780521460835.
Brock, Sebastian P. (2004). "Ephrem and the Syriac Tradition". The Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 362-372. ISBN 9780521460835.
Brock, Sebastian P. (2004). "The Syriac Churches in Ecumenical Dialogue on Christology". Eastern Christianity: Studies in Modern History, Religion and Politics. London: Melisende. pp. 44-65. ISBN 9781901764239.
Brock, Sebastian P. (2004). "Secondary Formations from Greek Loanwords in Syriac". Studia Orientalia. 99: 31-39.
Brock, Sebastian P. (2004). "Changing Fashions in Syriac Translation Technique: The Background to Syriac Translations under the Abbasids" (PDF). Journal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies. 4: 3-14. doi:10.1515/jcsss-2009-040103. S2CID 212726306.
Brock, Sebastian P. (2005). "The Syriac Orient: A Third 'Lung' for the Church?". Orientalia Christiana Periodica. 71: 5-20.
Brock, Sebastian P. (2006). Fire from Heaven: Studies in Syriac Theology and Liturgy. Aldershot: Ashgate. ISBN 9780754659082.
Bedjan, Paul; Brock, Sebastian P., eds. (2006). Homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug. 1. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. ISBN 9781593333287.
Bedjan, Paul; Brock, Sebastian P., eds. (2006). Homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug. 2. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. ISBN 9781593333294.
Bedjan, Paul; Brock, Sebastian P., eds. (2006). Homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug. 3. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. ISBN 9781593333300.
Bedjan, Paul; Brock, Sebastian P., eds. (2006). Homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug. 4. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. ISBN 9781593333317.
Bedjan, Paul; Brock, Sebastian P., eds. (2006). Homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug. 5. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. ISBN 9781593333324.
Bedjan, Paul; Brock, Sebastian P., eds. (2006). Homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug. 6. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. ISBN 9781593333331.
Brock, Sebastian P. (2007). "Early Dated Manuscripts of the Church of the East, 7th-13th Century". Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 21 (2): 8-34. Archived from the original on 2008-10-06.
Brock, Sebastian P. (2007). "The Contribution of Departed Syriacists, 1997-2006" (PDF). Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies. 10 (1): 7-22.
Brock, Sebastian P. (2009). "A Guide to Narsai's Homilies" (PDF). Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies. 12 (1): 21-40.
Brock, Sebastian P. (2010). "Jacob the Annotator: Jacob's Annotations to His Revised Translation of Severus' Cathedral Homilies". Studies on Jacob of Edessa. Piscataway: Gorgias Press. pp. 1-13. doi:10.31826/9781463216634-002. ISBN 9781463216634.
Brock, Sebastian P. (2010). "A Prayer Song by St Jacob of Serugh Recovered". In Kiraz, George (ed.). Jacob of Serugh and His Times: Studies in Sixth-Century Syriac Christianity. Piscataway: Gorgias Press. pp. 29-38. doi:10.31826/9781463216092-004. ISBN 9781463216092.
Brock, Sebastian P. (2010). "Jacob's Forgotten Sughyotho". In Kiraz, George (ed.). Jacob of Serugh and His Times: Studies in Sixth-Century Syriac Christianity. Piscataway: Gorgias Press. pp. 39-50. doi:10.31826/9781463216092-005. ISBN 9781463216092.
Brock, Sebastian P. (2010). "Jacob of Serugh: A Select Bibliographical Guide". In Kiraz, George (ed.). Jacob of Serugh and His Times: Studies in Sixth-Century Syriac Christianity. Piscataway: Gorgias Press. pp. 219-244. doi:10.31826/9781463216092-013. ISBN 9781463216092.
Brock, Sebastian P.; Coakley, James F. (2011). "Arameans". Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. pp. 30-31.
Brock, Sebastian P. (2011). "Christian Palestinian Aramaic". Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. pp. 96-97.
Brock, Sebastian P. (2011). "Liturgy". Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. pp. 248-251.
Brock, Sebastian P.; Butts, Aaron M. (2011). "Syriac Conferences". Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. pp. 389-390.
Brock, Sebastian P. (2011). "The Syriac, Christian Palestinian Aramaic and Arabic Manuscripts at Sinai". St Catherine's Monastery at Mount Sinai: Its Manuscripts and Their Conservation. London: Saint Catherine Foundation. pp. 43-50. ISBN 9780952806325.
Brock, Sebastian P. (2011). "Syriac Hagiography". The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography. 1. Farnham: Ashgate. pp. 259-283. ISBN 9780754650331.
Brock, Sebastian P. (2012). "Sinai: A Meeting Point of Georgian with Syriac and Christian Palestinian Aramaic". Caucasus between East and West: Historical and Philological Studies in Honour of Zaza Aleksidze. Tbilisi: National Center of Manuscripts. pp. 482-494.
Brock, Sebastian P. (2012). "The Monastery of Mor Gabriel: A Historical Overview and Its Wider Significance Today". The Slow Disappearance of the Syriacs from Turkey and of the Grounds of the Mor Gabriel Monastery. Münster: LIT Verlag. pp. 181-200. ISBN 9783643902689.
Brock, Sebastian P. (2014). "Greek and Latin in Syriac Script" (PDF). Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies. 17 (1): 33-52.
Brock, Sebastian P. (2015). "Charting the Hellenization of a Literary Culture: The Case of Syriac". Intellectual History of the Islamicate World. 3 (1-2): 98-124. doi:10.1163/2212943X-00301005.
Brock, Sebastian P. (2015). "The Syriac Language and its Place within Aramaic" (PDF). Hekamtho: Syrian Orthodox Theological Journal. 1 (1): 7-19.
Brock, Sebastian P. (2016). "Miaphysite, not Monophysite!". Cristianesimo Nella Storia. 37 (1): 45-52. ISBN 9788815261687.
Brock, Sebastian P. (2016). "A Half Century of Syriac Studies". Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. 40 (1): 38-48. doi:10.1017/byz.2015.5.
Brock, Sebastian P. (2016). "Developments in Syriac Studies over Half a Century (1964-2014)". The Harp. 31: 29-44.
Brock, Sebastian P. (2017). "Patriarch Severos' Letter on his Flight from Antioch in 518" (PDF). Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies. 20 (1): 25-50.
Brock, Sebastian P. (2017). "The Armenian Translation of the Syriac Life of St Ephrem and Its Syriac Source". Reflections on Armenia and the Christian Orient. Yerevan: Ankyunacar. pp. 119-130. ISBN 9789939850306.
Brock, Sebastian P. (2017). "Scribal Tradition and the Transmission of Syriac Literature in Late Antiquity and Early Islam". Scribal Practices and the Social Construction of Knowledge in Antiquity. Leuven: Peeters Publishers. pp. 61-68. ISBN 9789042933149.
Brock, Sebastian P. (2019). The People and the Peoples: Syriac Dialogue Poems from Late Antiquity. Oxford: Journal of Jewish Studies. ISBN 9780957522817.
Brock, Sebastian P. (2019). "Later Syriac Poetry". The Syriac World. London: Routledge. pp. 327-338. ISBN 9781138899018.
Brock, Sebastian P. (2019). "Jacob of Edessa's Letter to Addai on the Blessing of the Epiphany Water". Parole de l'Orient. 45: 119-132.
Brock, Sebastian P. (2020). "Five Women Martyrs: From Persia to Crete". The Garb of Being: Embodiment and the Pursuit of Holiness in Late Ancient Christianity. New York: Fordham University Press. pp. 221-233. ISBN 9780823287024.

References

^ Abouzayd 1993, p. 2: "The Syriac heritage owes much to Sebastian Brock and, as in the old adage "all roads lead to Rome", all aspects of Syriac studies lead one way or another to Sebastian Brock ... His voluminous work on Syriac, and related fields, is unique in our modern times."
^ Wolfson College: Sebastian Brock
^ Fellows of the British Academy: Dr Sebastian Brock FBA
^ "Leverhulme Medal and Prize 2009". Prizes and Medals. British Academy. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 2014.

Sources

Abouzayd, Shafiq (1993). "Sebastian Paul Brock: Life and Work". Aram Periodical. 5 (1-2): 1-22.
Apostolache, Ioni (2017). "Dr. Sebastian Brock & his Romanian Academic Experience". The Harp. 32: 235-244.
Dr?goi, Macarie (2010). "Professor Sebastian Brock and His Point of View on St. Ephrem the Syrian Theological Heritage". Altarul Reîntregirii. 1: 117-132.

External links

[FOOTNOTEAbouzayd19932-1] Abouzayd 1993, p. 2: "The Syriac heritage owes much to Sebastian Brock and, as in the old adage "all roads lead to Rome", all aspects of Syriac studies lead one way or another to Sebastian Brock ... His voluminous work on Syriac, and related fields, is unique in our modern times."

[2] Wolfson College: Sebastian Brock

[3] Fellows of the British Academy: Dr Sebastian Brock FBA

[4] "Leverhulme Medal and Prize 2009". Prizes and Medals. British Academy. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 2014.

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