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: 490
ISBN: 9781463207007
Pub Date: 02 May 2017
Series: Kiraz Jewish Studies Archive
Description:
This multi-volume work is a reprint of Israel Davidson’s classic opus, with a new introduction by piyyut scholar Michael Rand.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 156
ISBN: 9781463207045
Pub Date: 21 Apr 2017
Series: Journal of Language Relationship
Description:
The Journal of Language Relationship is an international periodical publication devoted to the issues of comparative linguistics and the history of the human language. The Journal contains articles written in English and Russian, as well as scientific reviews, discussions and reports from international linguistic conferences and seminars.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 480
ISBN: 9781463206123
Pub Date: 20 Apr 2017
Description:
For believers in a resurrection of the body, there arises the question of what happens after death but before the Last Day: the intermediate state. For most Muslims, the intermediate state is the barzakh. It is a fantastical and frightening time in the grave.
The present study will examine where the belief in the barzakh comes from through a study of the Qur'an.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 521
ISBN: 9781463206086
Pub Date: 06 Apr 2017
Description:
These articles on Aramaic, Hebrew, and Greek lexicography have arisen from papers presented at the International Syriac Language Project's 14th International Conference in St. Petersburg in 2014.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 526
ISBN: 9781463205751
Pub Date: 17 Mar 2017
Series: Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies
Description:
The book addresses the history of Syrian Orthodoxy during a critical juncture of its history that spans the late Ottoman period and treads well beyond to witness remarkable revival, indeed renaissance. The work uniquely utilizes over 6000 uncatalogued and unpublished archival documents that were made available for it.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 201
ISBN: 9781463206642
Pub Date: 10 Mar 2017
Description:
Muslims, Jews and Pagans examines in much detail the available source material on the 'Āliya area south of Medina on the eve of Islam and at the time of the Prophet Muḥammad. It provides part of the necessary background for the study of the Prophet's history by utilizing in addition to the Prophet's biographies, various texts about the history, geography and inhabitants of this area.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 539
ISBN: 9781463206635
Pub Date: 10 Mar 2017
Series: Gorgias Chronicles of Late Antiquity
Description:
The Chronicle of Zuqnin is a universal history beginning with the Creation according to the biblical account and ending with the time of the Chronicler, the years 775-776 AD. The author is most probably Joshua the Stylite, a contemporary of the Caliphs al-Mansur and al-Mahdi, who lived in the monastery of Zuqnin that was located near Amid, the Diar-Bakr of modern Turkey. Parts I and II contain compiled sources some of which survived only in this Chronicle.
Sources include the Bible, Cave of Treasures, the Sleepers of Ephesus, Eusebius of Caesarea, Socrates, and the short Chronicle called Pseudo-Joshua the Stylite that deals with Sassanian-Byzantine warfare at the begging of the 6th century. Parts III and IV cover the years 488 and 775 AD. In this volume, Parts I and II, including the author’s dedicatory letter, are now published in an updated edition of the Syriac text and the first English translation.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9781463205362
Pub Date: 02 Mar 2017
Series: Surath Kthob
Description:
This volume is part of a series of English translations of the Syriac Peshitta along with the Syriac text carried out by an international team of scholars.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 135
ISBN: 9781463206949
Pub Date: 01 Mar 2017
Series: Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures and its Contexts
Description:
This volume explores themes at the intersection of the Bible and science fiction. In the genre of science fiction in film, books, comic books, or fan fiction, we find portrayals of possible futures, altered pasts, supernatural or beyond-human beings. Just as in biblical literature, science fiction can contain metaphysical speculation.
Departing from this intersection, the authors engage with biblical texts 'as' science fiction, asking different questions of their sources: can science fiction theory and practice yield new approaches to the discussion of biblical texts? The authors reflect on methodology and offer case studies that include, among others, superhuman biblical kings and uncanny divine intermediaries.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 82
ISBN: 9781463206437
Pub Date: 21 Feb 2017
Series: Gorgias Handbooks
Description:
A short guide for studying, editing and translating medieval texts in manuscript form, outlining the technical steps for preparing a medieval manuscript for print: evaluating and describing the manuscript itself (transmission, provenance, and physical description), textual criticism (reconstruction, emendation, authenticity, dating, and authorship), and steps to preparing an edition or translation.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 101
ISBN: 9781463206802
Pub Date: 06 Feb 2017
Series: American Journal of Ancient History
Description:
The historic American Journal of Ancient History. This volume contains 5 articles: Blaise Nagy, 'The Argei Puzzle', Charles W. Fornara, 'The Order of Events in Ammianus Marcellinus 23.
5.4-25', Vincent J. Rosivach, 'Manning the Athenian Fleet, 433-426 BC', Barry S. Strauss, 'Ritual, Social Drama and Politics in Classical Athens', Stephen Ruzicka, 'A Note on Philip's Persian War'.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 100
ISBN: 9781463206819
Pub Date: 06 Feb 2017
Series: American Journal of Ancient History
Description:
The historic American Journal of Ancient History. This volume contains 5 articles: J.D.
Bing, 'Sissu/Issus, and Phoenicians in Cilicia', A. Shapur Shahbazi, 'Irano-Hellenic Notes: 1. The Three Faces of Tigranes', R.A. McNeal, 'Review-Discussion: Bernal Once Again', Gary Reger, 'The Date of the Battle of Kos', Torben Vestergaard, Lars Bjertrup, Mogens Herman Hansen, Thomas Heine Nielsen, Lene Rubinstein, 'A Typology of the Women Recorded on Gravestones from Attica'.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 146
ISBN: 9781463206826
Pub Date: 06 Feb 2017
Series: American Journal of Ancient History
Description:
The historic American Journal of Ancient History. This volume contains a study by John Bodel on the legal and linguistic aspects of the so-called lex Lucerina inscription. Bodel argues that the ordinance - prohibiting dumping dung/refuse, abandoning corpses, and performing sacrifices in honor of the dead - pertains to civil rather than sacred law.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 102
ISBN: 9781463206710
Pub Date: 06 Feb 2017
Series: American Journal of Ancient History
Description:
The historic American Journal of Ancient History. This volume contains 4 articles: Gerhard Perl, 'Cn. Tremelius Scrofa in Gallia Transalpina', Noel D.
Robertson, 'The True Nature of the 'Delian League' II', John K. Evans, 'Plebs Rustica. The Peasantry of Classical Italy II', A.M. Eckstein, 'Perils of Poetry'.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 101
ISBN: 9781463206741
Pub Date: 06 Feb 2017
Series: American Journal of Ancient History
Description:
The historic American Journal of Ancient History. This volume contains 6 articles: P.J.
Rhodes, 'Problems in Athenian Eisphora and Liturgies', Robert
Format: Paperback
Pages: 106
ISBN: 9781463206765
Pub Date: 06 Feb 2017
Series: American Journal of Ancient History
Description:
The historic American Journal of Ancient History. This volume contains 4 articles: Ellen Meiksins Wood, 'Agricultural Slavery in Classical Athens', N.G.
L. Hammond and M.B. Hatzopoulos, 'The Via Egnatia in Westen Macedonia II', Myles McDonnell, 'Divorce Initiated by Women in Rome', Robert W. Wallace, 'The Date of Solon's Reforms'.