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British scholar and university professor
Sebastian Paul Brock
FBA (born 1938,
London ) is a
British scholar, university professor, and specialist 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 , and one of the most prominent scholars in the wider field of
Aramaic studies .
Education
Brock studied at
Eton College , and completed his BA degree in Classics and Oriental Languages (Hebrew and Aramaic) at Trinity College,
University of Cambridge . In 1966, he became
Doctor of Philosophy at the
University of Oxford .
Career
Brock was Assistant Lecturer, and then Lecturer, at the
University of Birmingham (Department of Theology) from 1964 to 1967. He continued his academic career as Lecturer in Hebrew, and then Lecturer in Hebrew and Aramaic, at the
University of Cambridge , from 1967 to 1974. He was Lecturer in Aramaic and Syriac, and then
Reader in
Syriac Studies , at the
University of Oxford 's
Oriental Institute , from 1974 to 2003. Since 2003, he has been Emeritus Reader in Syriac Studies and Emeritus Fellow of
Wolfson College , Oxford.
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Brock is one of the main reviewers of the
Antioch Bible , a 21st-century English translation of the
Peshitta .
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Affiliations and recognition
Brock is a
Fellow of the
British Academy . He is the recipient of a number of
honorary doctorates , holding the
PhD Honoris Causa at the
École pratique des hautes études in Paris. Brock has been awarded the Medal of Saint
Ephrem the Syrian by the
Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch , and the
Leverhulme Medal of the
British Academy (2009).
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Personal life
Brock is married to
Helen Hughes-Brock , an
archaeologist specialising in
Minoan Crete and
Mycenaean Greece . He is a patron of the
Fellowship of Saint Alban and Saint Sergius .
Publications
Brock, Sebastian P., ed. (1971).
The Syriac Version of the Pseudo-Nonnos Mythological Scholia . London: Cambridge University Press.
Brock, Sebastian P. (2008) [1979].
The Holy Spirit in the Syrian Baptismal Tradition (3rd ed.). Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press.
ISBN
9781593338442 .
Brock, Sebastian P. (2017) [1980].
An Introduction to Syriac Studies (3rd revised ed.). Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press.
ISBN
9781463207137 .
Brock, Sebastian P. (1984).
Syriac Perspectives on Late Antiquity . London: Variorum Reprints.
ISBN
9780860781479 .
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. (1987).
The Syriac Fathers on Prayer and the Spiritual Life . Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications.
ISBN
9780879076016 .
Brock, Sebastian P.;
Harvey, Susan A. (1998) [1987].
Holy Women of the Syrian Orient . Berkeley: University of California Press.
ISBN
9780520213661 .
Brock, Sebastian P. (2008) [1988].
Studies in Syriac Spirituality (2nd revised ed.). Bangalore: Center for Eastern and Indian Christian Studies.
ISBN
9788189958176 .
Brock, Sebastian P. (1995).
Catalogue of Syriac Fragments (New Finds) in the Library of the Monastery of Saint Catherine, Mount Sinai . Athens: Mount Sinai Foundation.
ISBN
9789608573901 .
Brock, Sebastian P. (1996).
Syriac Studies: A Classified Bibliography, 1960-1990 . Kaslik: Parole de l'Orient.
Brock, Sebastian P. (1997).
A Brief Outline of Syriac Literature . Kottayam: St. Ephrem Ecumenical Research Institute.
Brock, Sebastian P. (1999).
From Ephrem to Romanos: Interactions Between Syriac and Greek in Late Antiquity . Aldershot: Ashgate.
ISBN
9780860788003 .
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 . Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. Vols. 1–6
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. (2020).
Singer of the Word of God: Ephrem the Syrian and his Significance in Late Antiquity . Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press.
doi :
10.31826/9781463239619 .
ISBN
9781463239619 .
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