Beth Mardutho (full name: Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute) is an American educational institute specializing in
Syriac studies
Syriac studies is the study of the Syriac language and Syriac Christianity. A specialist in Syriac studies is known as a Syriacist. Specifically, British, French, and German scholars of the 18th and 19th centuries who were involved in the study of ...
. Founded by
George Kiraz, the institute is based in
Piscataway, New Jersey
Piscataway ( ) is a Township (New Jersey), township in Middlesex County, New Jersey, Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is a suburb of the New York metropolitan area, in the Raritan River, Raritan Valley. As of the 2020 United ...
, U.S.
History
The institute was originally informally founded by
George A. Kiraz as the Syriac Computing Institute (SyrCOM) in 1992. SyrCOM was officially registered in 1996. In 2009, it was renamed as Beth Mardutho
when Kiraz expanded the institute's activities beyond
computational linguistics
Computational linguistics is an interdisciplinary field concerned with the computational modelling of natural language, as well as the study of appropriate computational approaches to linguistic questions. In general, computational linguistics ...
to include different aspects of
Syriac studies
Syriac studies is the study of the Syriac language and Syriac Christianity. A specialist in Syriac studies is known as a Syriacist. Specifically, British, French, and German scholars of the 18th and 19th centuries who were involved in the study of ...
.
Since 2014, the institute has been offering
Syriac language
The Syriac language ( ; ), also known natively in its spoken form in early Syriac literature as Edessan (), the Mesopotamian language () and Aramaic (), is an Aramaic#Eastern Middle Aramaic, Eastern Middle Aramaic dialect. Classical Syriac is ...
summer courses.
Projects
Beth Mardutho's projects include:
*Digital Syriac Corpus
*Qoruyo (Syriac
OCR and
HTR project)
*e-GEDSH (online version of the ''Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage'')
Beth Mardutho has collaborated with
Princeton Theological Seminary
Princeton Theological Seminary (PTSem), officially The Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian Church, is a Private university, private seminary, school of theology in Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Establish ...
(PTS) since 2011 to archive texts related to
Syriac Christianity
Syriac Christianity (, ''Mšiḥoyuṯo Suryoyto'' or ''Mšiḥāyūṯā Suryāytā'') is a branch of Eastern Christianity of which formative Christian theology, theological writings and traditional Christian liturgy, liturgies are expressed in ...
.
It has worked with the
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is an American 501(c)(3) organization, non-profit organization founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle that runs a digital library website, archive.org. It provides free access to collections of digitized media including web ...
to digitize various Syriac-related texts.
eBethArké, hosted by
Rutgers University
Rutgers University ( ), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of three campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's C ...
, is a Syriac digital library started by Beth Mardutho in 2000.
See also
*
Gorgias Press
Gorgias Press is a US-based independent academic publisher specializing in the history and religion of the Middle East and the larger pre-modern world.
History
Founded in 2001 by Christine and George Kiraz, the press is based in Piscataway, N ...
References
External links
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Educational institutions established in 2009
Piscataway, New Jersey
Syriac Christianity