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Member: Garzo

Library162 books — see library

Reviews12 reviews — see reviews

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TagsSyriac (30), grammar (21), biblical (20), church history (17), Gorgias (14), Aramaic (12), prayer (11) — see all tags

GroupsBible Scholarship, Biblical History, Christian Worship and Liturgy, Christianity, Graduate Students, Oxonians, Syriac: ܠܫܢܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ

About me I am a student of Syriac at Oxford University and a priest of the Church of England.

About my library My books mainly show these interests, plus some stuff on linguistics and some novels.

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Real nameGareth Hughes

LocationOxford, England

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Member sinceJun 21, 2007

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Exciting library. Gorgias catalogue is so full of interesting books. I just got one on the armenians in India. As for Syriac I have not digged further into that book. Armenian written in latin letters is terrible. Once you've learned armenian alphabet anything else annoying.

I will certainly look into your library.

Rune N
Dear Garzo,

And I wish I could learn Classical Armenian.

(I was asking on the off-chance, thank you for your gracious consideration.)

Yours,
Kushana
Thank you for starting the Syriac group, I look forward to it.

-Kushana
Ah, and the Bibles: first of all I love them for themseves, but second, having a Bible in a language is one of the solidest, surest and easiest ways for me to pick up some of that language, since I have the tremendous advantages of familiar context!
It is fun; languages fascinate me, and I've really enjoyed getting my tags set up, though that's very much a work in progress! Why did you choose to focus on Syriac? I did a semester of Aramaic a while back, but frankly, the teacher's methodology made things pretty difficult; I survived as well as I did because I'd already been studying Arabic a while. During the final exam I had one of those "lightbulb moments" about how similar the two languages were in their verb systems--how wonderful things would have been had that dawned om me earlier!
Wow, you surely have some intriguing titles!

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