Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies

Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies

Discipline	Ancient Near East
Language	English
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Former name(s)	Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society
History	1986–present
Frequency	Biannually
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ISO 4	J. Assyrian Acad. Stud.
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ISSN	1055-6982
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The Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies is a biannual academic journal published by various Assyriologists and other academics, covering studies on the Assyrian people, the history of Assyria and Babylonia, and Assyriology in general. It was established in 1986 as the Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society, obtaining its current title in 1997. The journal is published in English and Syriac. The editor-in-chief is Robert Paulissian.

Name change and parallel editions

In 1997, new editorial board, under the editor-in-chief Robert Paulissian, decided to change the name of the journal from "Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society" to "Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies", starting from the number 11 / 2 (1997), and continuing further under the new name. Responding to that, the Assyrian Academic Society (AAC) decided to create its own editorial board, under the editor-in-chief Nadia E. Joseph, announcing (in the spring of 1998) new numbers of their own journal, under the old name (Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society), and publishing numbers: 12 / 1 (1999), and 12 / 2 (2000). Thus, two parallel sets of editions were created, marking the transitional period from 1997 to 2000.

Selected articles

Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society (1986-1997)

7 / 2 (1993)

• Benjamin, Yoab (1993). "Assyrian Journalism: A 140-Year Experience". Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society. 7 (2): 1–28.
• Solomon, Zomaya S. (1993). "The new Assyrian Bible: A first Apercu". Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society. 7 (2): 29–40.
• Coakley, James F. (1993). "A List of Assyrian Villages in Persia, August 1893". Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society. 7 (2): 41–55.

8 / 1 (1994)

• De Kelaita, Robert W. (1994). "On the Road to Nineveh: Brief History of Assyrian Nationalism, 1892-1990". Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society. 8 (1): 6–30.
• Solomon, Zomaya S. (1994). "Basic sentence structure in Assyrian Aramaic". Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society. 8 (1): 83–107.

8 / 2 (1994)

• Solomon, Zomaya S. (1994). "The auxiliary verb in Assyrian Aramaic". Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society. 8 (2): 12–44.

9 / 1 (1995)

• Bar-Abrahem, Abdulmesih (1995). "The 'Question of Assyrian Journalism' Revisited". Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society. 9 (1): 3–7.

9 / 2 (1995)

• Galletti, Mirella (1995). "Italian Policy Towards Assyrians and Kurds (1920-1943)". Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society. 9 (2): 3–24.
• Buck, Christopher G. (1995). "Sapiential Theosis: A New Reading of Ephrem the Syrian's Hymns on Paradise" (PDF). Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society. 9 (2): 80–125.

10 / 1 (1996)

• Soro, Bawai (1996). "Does Ephesus Unite or Divide? A Re-Evaluation of the Council of Ephesus - An Assyrian Church of the East Perspective" (PDF). Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society. 10 (1): 3–13.
• Birnie, Michael J. (1996). "The Church of the East and Theodore of Mopsuestia: The Commitment to His Writings and its Implications for Dialogue" (PDF). Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society. 10 (1): 14–19.
• Buck, Christopher G. (1996). "The Universality of the Church of the East: How Persian Was Persian Christianity?" (PDF). Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society. 10 (1): 54–95.

10 / 2 (1996)

• Murre van den Berg, Heleen (1996). "The Missionaries' Assistants: The Role of Assyrians in the Development of Written Urmia Aramaic" (PDF). Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society. 10 (2): 3–17.
• Birnie, Michael J. (1996). "The East Syrian Liturgy as an Expression of Christology: With Special Attention to the Use of the Exchange of Predicates" (PDF). Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society. 10 (2): 77–82.

11 / 1 (1997)

• Lala-Comneno, Maria Adelaide (1997). "Nestorianism in Central Asia during the First Millennium: Archaeological Evidence" (PDF). Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society. 11 (1): 20–53.

Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies (1997-2015)

11 / 2 (1997)

• Weltecke, Dorothea (1997). "The World Chronicle by Patriarch Michael the Great (1126-1199): Some Reflections" (PDF). Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 11 (2): 6–29.
• Frye, Richard N. (1997). "Assyria and Syria: Synonyms" (PDF). Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 11 (2): 30–36.
• Joseph, John B. (1997). "Assyria and Syria: Synonyms?" (PDF). Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 11 (2): 37–43.

12 / 1 (1998)

• Saadi, Abdul-Massih (1998). "Christological Contention and Tolerance in the Syriac Church Traditions: A Case for Ecumenism" (PDF). Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 12 (1): 47–57.
• Joseph, John B. (1998). "The Bible and the Assyrians: It Kept their Memory Alive" (PDF). Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 12 (1): 70–76.

12 / 2 (1998)

• Bar-Abrahem, Abdulmesih (1998). "Patriarch Michael the Great: Beyond his World Chronicle" (PDF). Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 12 (2): 33–45.

13 / 1 (1999)

• Yildiz, Efrem (1999). "The Assyrians: A Historical and Current Reality". Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 13 (1): 15–30.
• Frye, Richard N. (1999). "Reply to John Joseph" (PDF). Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 13 (1): 69–70.

13 / 2 (1999)

• Missick, Stephen Andrew (1999). "The Assyrian Church in the Mongolian Empire as Observed by World Travelers in the Late 13th and Early 14th Centuries" (PDF). Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 13 (2): 85–104.

14 / 1 (2000)

• Yildiz, Efrem (2000). "The Aramaic Language and its Classification". Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 14 (1): 23–44.
• Yana, George V. (2000). "Myth vs Reality". Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 14 (1): 78–82.

14 / 2 (2000)

• Missick, Stephen Andrew (2000). "Mar Thoma: The Apostolic Foundation of the Assyrian Church and the Christians of St. Thomas in India" (PDF). Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 14 (2): 33–61.

15 / 1 (2001)

• Yildiz, Efrem (2001). "The Structure of the Aramean Statehood". Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 15 (1): 32–49.

15 / 2 (2001)

• Yousif, Pierre (2001). "The Divine Liturgy according to the Rite of the Assyro-Chaldean Church". Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 15 (2): 173–237.

16 / 1 (2002)

• Gewargis, Odisho Malko (2002). "We Are Assyrians" (PDF). Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 16 (1): 77–95.

16 / 2 (2002)

• Yana, George V. (2002). "Schools of the Church of the East". Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 16 (2): 30–53.

17 / 1 (2003)

• Joseph, John B. (2003). "A Response by John Joseph". Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 17 (1).

17 / 2 (2003)

• Ishaya, Arianne (2003). "Assyrian-Americans: A Study in Ethnic Reconstruction and Dissolution in Diaspora" (PDF). Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 17 (2): 19–38.

18 / 1 (2004)

• Kiraz, George A. (2004). "Sebastian Paul Brock: Haddaya of Syriac Studies" (PDF). Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 18 (1): 5–8.

18 / 2 (2004)

• Parpola, Simo (2004). "National and Ethnic Identity in the Neo-Assyrian Empire and Assyrian Identity in Post-Empire Times" (PDF). Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 18 (2): 5–22.

19 / 1 (2005)

• Biggs, Robert D. (2005). "My Career in Assyriology and Near Eastern Archaeology" (PDF). Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 19 (1): 1–23.

19 / 2 (2005)

• Borbone, Pier Giorgio (2005). "Some Aspects of Turco-Mongol Christianity in the Light of Literary and Epigraphic Syriac Sources" (PDF). Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 19 (2): 5–20.

20 / 1 (2006)

• Ishaya, Arianne (2006). "Settling Into Diaspora: A History of Urmia Assyrians in the United States" (PDF). Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 20 (1): 3–27.
• Younansardaroud, Helen (2006). "A list of the known Manuscripts of the Syriac Maqāmat of 'Abdīšō' bar Brīkā (†1318): Paradise of Eden" (PDF). Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 20 (1): 28–41.

20 / 2 (2006)

• El-Badawi, Emran (2006). "Tales of King Abgar: A Basis to Investigate Earliest Syrian Christian Syncretism" (PDF). Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 20 (2): 25–44.

21 / 1 (2007)

• Khan, Geoffrey (2007). "Remarks on the Historical Background of the Modern Assyrian Language". Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 21 (1): 1–6.
• Yana, George V. (2007). "Christian Churches, Monasteries and Patriarchs in Assyria". Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 21 (1): 39–63.

21 / 2 (2007)

• 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.

22 / 1 (2008)

• Mengozzi, Alessandro (2008). "Suraye wa-Phrangaye: Late East-Syriac Poetry on Historical Events in Classical Syriac and Sureth". Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 22 (1): 3–14.
• Wolk, Daniel P. (2008). "Church Colony vs. Congregation: A Struggle for Control of the Church of the East in Chicago during the 1940s". Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 22 (1): 15–58.

22 / 2 (2008)

• Younansardaroud, Helen (2008). "Modern Assyrian Proverbs and Idioms". Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 22 (2): 3–11.

23 / 1 (2009)

• MacGinnis, John; Matney, Timothy (2009). "Archaeology at Frontiers: Excavating a Provincial Capital of the Assyrian Empire" (PDF). Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 23 (1): 3–21.

23 / 2 (2009)

• Sabar, Yona (2009). "Mene Mene, Tekel uPharsin (Daniel 5:25): Are the Days of Jewish and Christian Neo-Aramaic Dialects Numbered?" (PDF). Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 23 (2): 6–17.
• Lamassu, Nineb (2009). "The Female Voice in Rāwe: The Strive for Gender Equality". Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 23 (2): 38–50.

24 / 1 (2010)

• Ebied, Rifaat Y.; Al-Jeloo, Nicholas (2010). "Some Further Letters in Syriac, Neo-Aramaic and Arabic Addressed to Eduard Sachau by Jeremiah Shāmīr". Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 24 (1): 19–57.
• Makko, Aryo (2010). "The Historical Roots of Contemporary Controversies: National Revival and the Assyrian Concept of Unity". Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 24 (1): 58–86.

24 / 2 (2010)

• Sabar, Yona (2010). "Romantic Songs in Christian Neo-Aramaic as Preserved in Kurdistani Jewish Folklore: A Case of Cultural Borrowing". Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 24 (2): 1–10.

25 / 1-2 (2011)

• Travis, Hannibal (2011). "The Assyrian Genocide and Middle East Studies: Introduction to a Special Issue of the Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies on Seyfo". Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society. 25 (1–2): 4–24.
• Makko, Aryo (2011). "Between Integration and Exclusion: Reflections on Contemporary Assyrian Historiography". Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society. 25 (1–2): 25–31.
• Beṯ-Şawoce, Jan (2011). "A Short Study about the Sayfo Issue in the Vatican Secret Archives". Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society. 25 (1–2): 32–39.
• Demir, Sara (2011). "The Atrocities against the Assyrians in 1915". Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society. 25 (1–2): 40–76.
• Bar-Abrahem, Abdulmesih (2011). "Turkey's Key Arguments in Denying the Assyrian Genocide: A Brief Review of Two Publications of the Turkish Historical Society". Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society. 25 (1–2): 77–88.
• Baboo, Donita Payne (2011). "Excerpts from the Baboo Family Story: From Urmia, Persia (Iran) to Gary, Indiana: Part II". Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society. 25 (1–2): 89–97.
• Galletti, Mirella (2011). "Vatican Dispatches on Assyro-Chaldeans, Kurds and Turkey (1935-1939): The Secretary of State Eugenio Pacelli, Later Pope Pius XII, and the Apostolic Delegate to Turkey, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, Later Pope John XXIII". Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society. 25 (1–2): 98–131.
• Abdalla, Michael (2011). "Condemnation of Gluttony in a Path to Perfection by the Assyrian Bishop Philoxenus of Mabbūg (†524)". Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society. 25 (1–2): 132–142.
• Yildiz, Efrem (2011). "The Teaching Method and Activities at the Ancient Universities at Edessa and Nisibis". Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society. 25 (1–2): 143–159.

26 / 1-2 (2012)

• Khan, Geoffrey (2012). "Remarks on the Dialects of the Assyrians in North-Western Iran". Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 26 (1–2): 1–14.
• Panoussi, Estiphan (2012). "The Verbal System in the New-Aramaic Dialects". Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 26 (1–2): 15–43.
• Younansardaroud, Helen (2012). "A Comparative Study of Neologism in the Assyrian Language Based on Two Assyrian Journals: Gilgamesh and JAAS". Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 26 (1–2): 44–53.
• Skaf, Roula (2012). "Revitalizing Modern Syriac". Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 26 (1–2): 54–62.
• Atto, Naures (2012). "We Are All the Sons of Mor Gabriel". Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 26 (1–2): 63–76.
• Malick, David G. (2012). "Modern Assyrian Literature in Translation". Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 26 (1–2): 77–100.
• Al-Jeloo, Nicholas (2012). "A Collection of Unpublished Neo-Aramaic Manuscripts from Urmia". Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 26 (1–2): 101–170.

28 / 1-2 (2015)

• Younansardaroud, Helen (2015). "A Manuscript in the Jewish New-Aramaic Dialect of Sablagh (Persian Azerbaijan)" (PDF). Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 28 (1–2): 48–68.

Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society (1997-2000)

12 / 1 (1999)

• Saadi, Abdul-Massih (1999). "The Beginning of West-Syriac Christianity: A Study in Comparative Historiography". Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society. 12 (1): 17–28.
• Shephardson, Tina (1999). "Christian Division in Ancient Edessa: Ephrem the Syrian's Carmina Nisibena XXVII-XXVIII". Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society. 12 (1): 29–41.

12 / 2 (2000)

• Parpola, Simo (2000). "Assyrians after Assyria". Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society. 12 (2): 1–16.
• Saadi, Abdul-Massih (2000). "The Scythe of the Ottomans and the Decimation of the Assyrian Nation". Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society. 12 (2): 17–27.

See also

• Assyrian Academic Society
• Journal of Near Eastern Studies

Sources

• Paulissian, Robert (1997). "Forging On" (PDF). Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 11 (2): 1–2.

External links

• Official website