Sebastian Brock
From Textus Receptus
Sebastian Paul Brock (born 1938, London) is generally acknowledged as the foremost and most influential academic in the field of Syriac language today.[1] He is a former Reader in Syriac Studies at the University of Oxford's Oriental Institute and currently a Professorial Fellow at Wolfson College. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.
Sebastian Brock completed his BA degree at the University of Cambridge, and a DPhil at Oxford. 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. His best selling books are The Luminous Eye: The Spiritual World Vision of Saint Ephrem the Syrian (Kalamazoo: Cistercian. ISBN 0-87907-524-4) and The Syriac Fathers on Prayer and the Spiritual Life (Kalamazoo: Cistercian. ISBN 0-87907-601-1).
He is married to Helen Hughes-Brock, an archaeologist specialising in Minoan Crete and Mycenaean Greece.
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Notes
- 1. AbouZayd, Shafiq (1993). "Sebastian Paul Brock: Life and Work". Aram Periodical (Leuven: Peeters). 5 (A Festschrift for Dr. Sebastian P. Brock) (1 & 2): 2. ISSN 0959-4213. "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."
External links
- Sebastian Brock's faculty page at the Oriental Institute, Oxford.
- Brock’s 31-page Introduction to Syriac Studies PDF
- Brock’s The Bible in the Syriac Tradition
- Brock’s Brief Outline of Syriac Literature
- Sebastian Brock’s bibliographies, outlining where to find information about Syriac issues
- Several authors who have contributed articles to the Hugoye journal including eleven articles by Sebastian Brock, including “A Tentative Checklist of Dated Syriac Manuscripts Up To 1300.”
Videos
- Object No. 5: A sixth-century lectern from Syria presented by Dr Sebastian Brock (Youtube) Sebastian Brock describes a stone lectern that was used in Syria in the 500’s and summarizes the spread of Christianity in the East.
- Sebastian Brock discusses the distinct traits of Syriac theology (Youtube)
- Sebastian Brock shares some of his personal history in a 2010 interview (Youtube)
- A lecture presented by the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies about Ephraim the Syrian Sebastian Brock February 2013
