Gorgias Press
Founded in 2001 Gorgias Press is an independent academic publisher of books and journals related to history, languages, and religious studies, with specific areas of expertise in the Ancient Near East, Arabic and Islamic Studies, Archaeology, Biblical Studies, Classics, Early Christianity, Jewish Studies, Linguistics, and Syriac.
Gorgias [GOR-gee-us] Press was originally created by George and Christine Kiraz as a specialty press that could keep up with their research interests. With a background in computational linguistics, George Kiraz envisioned combining cutting-edge technology with humanities research. The new company would be completely online, with no physical storefront, and it would use automation and digital printing technology rather than traditional print runs. With these tools, the press could afford to publish rare and understudied topics that were previously considered unprofitable, and Gorgias soon became known for its pioneering work in language and linguistics, religion, and especially Syriac and Eastern Christianity.
Gorgias’ philosophy of “Publishing for the Sake of Knowledge” rather than profit, attracted a number of new authors, and the press’ areas of interest rapidly began to expand. Today, Gorgias Press publishes 50-60 new titles a year, including monographs, edited volumes, translations, and more, and Gorgias books can be found in academic collections all over the world.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 152
ISBN: 9781593333126
Pub Date: 01 Jan 2006
Description:
This study helps to provide an understanding of the Syrian Orthodox Church in the more recent past. In particular, it seeks to relate how that Church experienced contact with the Church of England.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9781593331948
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2005
Description:
Early lists of bishops, identified by Walter Bauer as "literary propaganda," mark critical points in the development of the doctrine of the apostolic succession of bishops. This study delves into the political struggles surrounding the lists and the doctrine they served to define. Ecclesiastical politics in each case reflects the threat to the bishop's authority and clarifies the meaning of apostolic succession in the Church's development.
This social history approach, examining the function of the literature within its historical circumstances, reveals how theology developed from politics. The development is as gripping politically as it is illuminating theologically.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 7545
ISBN: 9781593333508
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2005
Description:
This concordance is a result of The Norwegian Philo Concordance Project and a printout of a database containing all the Greek words in the writings of Philo of Alexandria. All words of Philo have been tagged and lemmatized. It presents all Philo words within its context in alphabetic order.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 930
ISBN: 9781593333515
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2005
Description:
This concordance is a result of The Norwegian Philo Concordance Project and a printout of a database containing all the Greek words in the writings of Philo of Alexandria. All words of Philo have been tagged and lemmatized. It presents all Philo words within its context in alphabetic order.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 845
ISBN: 9781593333522
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2005
Description:
This concordance is a result of The Norwegian Philo Concordance Project and a printout of a database containing all the Greek words in the writings of Philo of Alexandria. All words of Philo have been tagged and lemmatized. It presents all Philo words within its context in alphabetic order.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 844
ISBN: 9781593333539
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2005
Description:
This concordance is a result of The Norwegian Philo Concordance Project and a printout of a database containing all the Greek words in the writings of Philo of Alexandria. All words of Philo have been tagged and lemmatized. It presents all Philo words within its context in alphabetic order.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 952
ISBN: 9781593333546
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2005
Description:
This concordance is a result of The Norwegian Philo Concordance Project and a printout of a database containing all the Greek words in the writings of Philo of Alexandria. All words of Philo have been tagged and lemmatized. It presents all Philo words within its context in alphabetic order.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 860
ISBN: 9781593333553
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2005
Description:
This concordance is a result of The Norwegian Philo Concordance Project and a printout of a database containing all the Greek words in the writings of Philo of Alexandria. All words of Philo have been tagged and lemmatized. It presents all Philo words within its context in alphabetic order.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 971
ISBN: 9781593333560
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2005
Description:
This concordance is a result of The Norwegian Philo Concordance Project and a printout of a database containing all the Greek words in the writings of Philo of Alexandria. All words of Philo have been tagged and lemmatized. It presents all Philo words within its context in alphabetic order.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 1081
ISBN: 9781593333577
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2005
Description:
This concordance is a result of The Norwegian Philo Concordance Project and a printout of a database containing all the Greek words in the writings of Philo of Alexandria. All words of Philo have been tagged and lemmatized. It presents all Philo words within its context in alphabetic order.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 1062
ISBN: 9781593333584
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2005
Description:
This concordance is a result of The Norwegian Philo Concordance Project and a printout of a database containing all the Greek words in the writings of Philo of Alexandria. All words of Philo have been tagged and lemmatized. It presents all Philo words within its context in alphabetic order.
Pages: 376
ISBN: 9781593332082
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2005
Series: Cultures in Dialogue: First Series
Pages: 376
ISBN: 9781593332235
Pub Date: 28 Dec 2005
Series: Cultures in Dialogue: First Series
Description:
Melek Hanım, an Ottoman woman of Greek, Armenian, and French heritage, accompanied her husband to various postings in Palestine and Serbia, and shared with him the frustrations of the arbitrary periodic dismissals that characterized late Ottoman politics. Her account of life in Turkey contains details of political intrigue, corruption and demonstrates the influence and mobility available to women in the official households of the Ottoman elite. Filled with maneuvers, murder, divorce, political machinations, and vengeance, Hanım's life was an attempt to gain access to property she viewed as legitimately her own.
This book was written during her later exile in Paris.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 276
ISBN: 9781593333164
Pub Date: 14 Nov 2005
Description:
This book was by far the earliest book-length study of any aspect of modern Arabic literature to be published outside the Arab world.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9781931956383
Pub Date: 26 Oct 2005
Description:
No scholarly discovery in modern times has been cloaked in more controversy than the Dead Sea Scrolls. This is especially true of the actual find of Cave I in 1946–1947, and the claims and counter-claims of ownership that ensued. One such claim came from Anton D.
Kiraz, the contact between Mar Samuel and Prof. Sukenik. Kiraz left an extensive archive of letters, documents, and an interview with the Bedouins who discovered the scrolls, which are published here. The archive not only reveals Kiraz’s claims of ownership, but also documents the minutest details concerning the discovery itself.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 135
ISBN: 9781593332358
Pub Date: 14 Sep 2005
Description:
This study helps to provide an understanding of the Syrian Orthodox Church, in the more recent past. In particular, it seeks to relate how that Church experienced contact with the Church of England.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
ISBN: 9781593332747
Pub Date: 14 Sep 2005
Description:
Sam Osmanagich transports the reader to ruined Mayan cities including the brilliant Chichen Itza, elegant Uxmal, artistic Copan, magical Palenque, forgotten Ek Balam, beautiful Izamal, hidden Yaxchilan, spiritual Oxkintok, monumental Coba, and colossal Tikal.