{"id":739,"date":"2016-10-04T19:31:51","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T00:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/syriaca.org\/blog\/?p=739"},"modified":"2017-03-29T16:07:19","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T21:07:19","slug":"new-publication-qadishe-a-guide-to-the-syriac-saints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/michelson\/2016\/10\/new-publication-qadishe-a-guide-to-the-syriac-saints\/","title":{"rendered":"New Publication: Qadishe: A Guide to the Syriac Saints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Syriaca.org is pleased to announce the release of a new online publication:<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/syriaca.org\/q\/index.html\"><em>Qadishe: A Guide to the Syriac Saints<\/em><\/a><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_742\" style=\"width: 212px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/syriaca.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Qadishe-A-Guide-To-Syriac-Saints-8-23-16.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-742\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-742\" title=\"Qadishe A Guide To Syriac Saints\" src=\"http:\/\/syriaca.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Qadishe-A-Guide-To-Syriac-Saints-8-23-16-202x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-742\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: &#8220;Three Patriarchs in Paradise in the Monastery of St Moses (Syria).&#8221; Paul van Moorsel Centre for Christian Art and Culture. Image provided by Paul van Moorsel Centre for Christian Art and Culture, VU Universiteit Amsterdam under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Editors:<br \/>\nJeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent, Marquette University<br \/>\nDavid A. Michelson, Vanderbilt University<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/syriaca.org\/q\/index.html\">Qadishe<\/a><\/em> (from the Syriac word meaning \u201csaints\u201d) is a scholarly catalogue of over one thousand persons venerated in the Syriac Christian traditions. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/syriaca.org\/q\/index.html\">Qadishe<\/a><\/em> includes entries for saints native to the Syriac-speaking milieu as well as for biblical figures and saints from other linguistic or cultural traditions who were appropriated into Syriac religious memory. Individual descriptions of each saint include name variants (in Syriac as well as translation), biographical information such as death dates and related persons, and bibliographies of primary and secondary literature including accounts of the saint\u2019s life. For places and texts associated with a saint, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/syriaca.org\/q\/index.html\">Qadishe<\/a><\/em> provides references to related information in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/syriaca.org\/geo\">The Syriac Gazetteer<\/a> <\/em>and the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/syriaca.org\/bhse\/index.html\">Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca Electronica<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/syriaca.org\/q\/index.html\">Qadishe<\/a><\/em>\u00a0is freely available online as the first volume of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/syriaca.org\/persons\/index.html\">The Syriac Biographical Dictionary<\/a><\/em>. Readers can browse entries online, download the entire publication in TEI XML, create permanent links to other digital publications, and offer editorial revisions through Gateway to the Syriac Saints: <a href=\"http:\/\/syriaca.org\/saints\">http:\/\/syriaca.org\/saints<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith its focus on the cult of saints and its literary expression in hagiography, this database offers a new perspective on the richly textured world of Syriac Christianity.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014Claudia Rapp, Vorstand, Institut f\u00fcr Byzantinistik und Neogr\u00e4zistik, Universit\u00e4t Wien<\/p>\n<p>An information flyer may be downloaded here: <a href=\"http:\/\/syriaca.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Qadishe-Guide-to-Syriac-Saints-flyer-2016.pdf\">Qadishe: Guide to Syriac Saints Flyer 2016<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syriaca.org is pleased to announce the release of a new online publication: Qadishe: A Guide to the Syriac Saints Editors: Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent, Marquette University David A. 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