Sebastian Brock

Sebastian Paul Brock, FBA (born 1938, London) is a British scholar, university professor, and expert in the field of academic studies of Classical Syriac language and Classical Syriac literature. His research also encompasses various aspects of cultural history of Syriac Christianity. He is generally acknowledged as one of the foremost academics in the field of Syriac studies, and one of the most prominent scholars in the wider field of Aramaic studies.^[1][2]

Brock studied at Eton College, and completed his BA degree in Classics and Oriental Languages (Hebrew and Aramaic) at the Trinity College (University of Cambridge). In 1966, he became Doctor of Philosophy at Oxford. He was Assistant Lecturer, and then Lecturer, at the University of Birmingham (Department of Theology) from 1964 tp 1967. He continued his academic career as Lecturer in Hebrew, and then Lecturer in Hebrew and Aramaic, at Cambridge University, from 1967 to 1974. He was Lecturer in Aramaic and Syriac, and then Reader in Syriac Studies, at the University of Oxford's Oriental Institute, from 1974 to 2003. Since 2003, he is Emeritus Reader in Syriac Studies and Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford.^[3][4]

Brock is a Fellow of the British Academy. He is the recipient of a number of honorary doctorates, holding the PhD Honoris Causa at École pratique des hautes études in Paris. Brock has been awarded the Medal of Saint Ephrem the Syrian by the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch, and the Leverhulme Medal of the British Academy (2009).^[5] He is a widely published author on Syriac topics.

Brock is married to Helen Hughes-Brock, an archaeologist specialising in Minoan Crete and Mycenaean Greece.

Works

• Brock, Sebastian P. (1966). "The Syriac Manuscripts in the National Library, Athens". Le Muséon. 79: 165–185.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (1966). "The Armenian and Syriac Versions of the Ps. Nonnus Mythological Scholia". Le Muséon. 79: 401–428.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (1967). "Greek Words in the Syriac Gospels (Vet. and Pe.)". Le Muséon. 80: 389–426.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (1967). "Alphonse Mingana and the Letter of Philoxenus to Abu 'Afr" (PDF). Bulletin of the John Rylands Library. 50 (1): 199–206. doi:10.7227/BJRL.50.1.10.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (1968). "A Fragment of Enoch in Syriac". The Journal of Theological Studies. 19 (2): 626–633. doi:10.1093/jts/XIX.2.626. JSTOR 23958598.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (1968). "A Further Fragment of the Sinai Sahdona Manuscript". Le Muséon. 81: 139–154.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (1968). "A Piece of Wisdom Literature in Syriac". Journal of Semitic Studies. 13 (2): 212–217. doi:10.1093/jss/13.2.212.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (1969). "Notes on Some Texts in the Mingana Collection". Journal of Semitic Studies. 14 (2): 205–226. doi:10.1093/jss/14.2.205.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (1969). "A Syriac Version of the Letters of Lentulus and Pilate". Orientalia Christiana Periodica. 35: 45–62.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (1969). "Rabban Ṣauma à Constantinople (1287)". Mémorial Mgr Gabriel Khouri-Sarkis (1898-1968). Louvain: Imprimerie orientaliste. pp. 245–253.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (1970). "A New Syriac Baptismal Ordo Attributed to Timothy of Alexandria". Le Muséon. 83: 367–431.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (1970). "A Calendar Attributed to Jacob of Edessa". Parole de l'Orient. 1 (2): 415–429.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (1971). "A Fragment of the Acta Pilati in Christian Palestinian Aramaic". The Journal of Theological Studies. 22 (1): 157–159. doi:10.1093/jts/XXII.I.157. JSTOR 23962351.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (1973). "An Early Syriac Life of Maximus the Confessor". Analecta Bollandiana. 91 (3–4): 299–346. doi:10.1484/J.ABOL.4.01267.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (1973). "A Syriac Fragment on the Sixth Council". Oriens Christianus. 57: 63–71. ISBN 9783447015332.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (1975). "Some New Letters of the Patriarch Severos". Studia Patristica. 12: 17–24. ISBN 9780802805812.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (1975). "Some Aspects of Greek Words in Syriac". Synkretismus im syrisch-persischen Kulturgebiet. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. pp. 80–108. ISBN 9783525823743.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (1976). "Syriac Sources for Seventh-Century History". Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. 2: 17–36. doi:10.1179/030701376790206207.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (1977). "Greek into Syriac and Syriac into Greek". Journal of the Syriac Academy. 3: 406–422.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (1979). "Aspects of Translation Technique in Antiquity". Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies. 20 (1): 69–87.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (1979). "Jacob of Edessa's Discourse on the Myron". Oriens Christianus. 63: 20–36.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (1979). The Holy Spirit in the Syrian Baptismal Tradition (1st ed.). Poona: Anita Printers.
  • Brock, Sebastian P. (1998) [1979]. The Holy Spirit in the Syrian Baptismal Tradition (2nd ed.). Kottayam: Jyothi Book House.
  • Brock, Sebastian P. (2008) [1979]. The Holy Spirit in the Syrian Baptismal Tradition (3rd ed.). Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. ISBN 9781593338442.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (1980). "An Introduction to Syriac Studies". Horizons in Semitic Studies: Articles for the Student. Birmingham: University of Birmingham. pp. 1–33. ISBN 9780704403741.
  • Brock, Sebastian P. (2006) [1980]. An Introduction to Syriac Studies (2nd revised ed.). Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. ISBN 9781593333492.
    • Brock, Sebastian P. (2017) [1980]. An Introduction to Syriac Studies (3rd revised ed.). Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. ISBN 9781463207137.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (1983). "Towards a History of Syriac Translation Technique". III Symposium Syriacum 1980. Roma: Pontificium institutum studiorum orientalium. pp. 1–14.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (1982). "Christians in the Sasanian Empire: A Case of Divided Loyalties". Religious and National Identity: Papers Read at the Nineteenth Summer Meeting and the Twentieth Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society. Oxford: Blackwell. pp. 1–19. ISBN 9780631180609.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (1982). "From Antagonism to Assimilation: Syriac Attitudes to Greek Learning". East of Byzantium: Syria and Armenia in the Formative Period. Washington: Dumbarton Oaks, Center for Byzantine Studies. pp. 17–34. ISBN 9780884021049.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (1984). Syriac Perspectives on Late Antiquity. London: Variorum Reprints. ISBN 9780860781479.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (1985). The Luminous Eye: The Spiritual World Vision of St. Ephrem (1st ed.). Rome: Centre for Indian and Inter religious Studies.
  • Brock, Sebastian P. (1992) [1985]. The Luminous Eye: The Spiritual World Vision of Saint Ephrem (2nd revised ed.). Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications. ISBN 9780879075248.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (1985). "The Christology of the Church of the East in the Synods of the Fifth to Early Seventh Centuries: Preliminary Considerations and Materials". Aksum, Thyateira: A Festschrift for Archbishop Methodios of Thyateira and Great Britain. London: Thyateira House. pp. 125–142.
  • Brock, Sebastian P. (1996). "The Christology of the Church of the East". Традиции и наследие Христианского Востока. Москва: Индрик. pp. 159–179. ISBN 9785857590379.
  • Brock, Sebastian P. (1999). "The Christology of the Church of the East in the Synods of the Fifth to Early Seventh Centuries: Preliminary Considerations and Materials". Doctrinal Diversity: Varieties of Early Christianity. New York and London: Garland Publishing. pp. 281–298. ISBN 9780815330714.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (1985). "A Monothelete Florilegium in Syriac". After Chalcedon: Studies in Theology and Church History. Leuven: Peeters Publishers. pp. 35–45. ISBN 9789070192150.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (1986). "Two Sets of Monothelete Questions to the Maximianists". Orientalia Lovaniensia Periodica. 17: 119–140.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (1986). "An Early Syriac Commentary on the Liturgy". The Journal of Theological Studies. 37 (2): 387–403. doi:10.1093/jts/37.2.387. JSTOR 23962452.
• Brock, Sebastian P.; Harvey, Susan A. (1987). Holy Women of the Syrian Orient. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520057050.
  • Brock, Sebastian P.; Harvey, Susan A. (1998) [1987]. Holy Women of the Syrian Orient. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520213661.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (1988). Studies in Syriac Spirituality (1st ed.). Kottayam: Jyothi Book House.
  • Brock, Sebastian P. (2008) [1988]. Studies in Syriac Spirituality (2nd revised ed.). Bangalore: Center for Eastern and Indian Christian Studies. ISBN 9788189958176.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (1989). "Three Thousand Years of Aramaic Literature". Aram Periodical. 1 (1): 11–23.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (1989). "Some Observations on the Use of Classical Syriac in the Late Twentieth Century". Journal of Semitic Studies. 34 (2): 363–375. doi:10.1093/jss/XXXIV.2.363.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (1990). "Diachronic Aspects of Syriac Word Formation: An Aid for Dating Anonymous Texts". V Symposium Syriacum 1988. Roma: Pontificium institutum studiorum orientalium. pp. 321–330.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (1992). Studies in Syriac Christianity: History, Literature, and Theology. Aldershot: Variorum. ISBN 9780860783053.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (1992). "Eusebius and Syriac Christianity". Eusebius, Christianity, and Judaism. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. pp. 212–234. ISBN 0814323618.
  • Brock, Sebastian P. (1999). "Eusebius and Syriac Christianity". Doctrinal Diversity: Varieties of Early Christianity. New York and London: Garland Publishing. pp. 258–280. ISBN 9780815330714.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (1994). "Greek and Syriac in Late Antique Syria". Literacy and Power in the Ancient World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 149–160, 234–235. ISBN 9780521587365.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (1994). "Syriac Studies in the Last Three Decades: Some Reflections". VI Symposium Syriacum 1992. Roma: Pontificium institutum studiorum orientalium. pp. 13–29. ISBN 9788872103050.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (1994). "The Development of Syriac Studies". The Edward Hincks Bicentenary Lectures. Dublin: University College. pp. 94–113. ISBN 9781898473152.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (1995). Catalogue of Syriac Fragments (New Finds) in the Library of the Monastery of Saint Catherine, Mount Sinai. Athens: Mount Sinai Foundation. ISBN 9789608573901.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (1996). Syriac Studies: A Classified Bibliography, 1960-1990. Kaslik: Parole de l'Orient.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (1996). "Greek Words in Syriac: Some General Features". Studia Classica Israelica. 15: 251–262.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (1996). "The 'Nestorian' Church: A Lamentable Misnomer" (PDF). Bulletin of the John Rylands Library. 78 (3): 23–35. doi:10.7227/BJRL.78.3.3.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (1997). A Brief Outline of Syriac Literature. Kottayam: St. Ephrem Ecumenical Research Institute.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (1997). "The Transmission of Ephrem's madrashe in the Syriac Liturgical Tradition". Studia Patristica. 33: 490–505. ISBN 9789068318685.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (1998). "The Baptismal Anointings According to the Anonymous Expositio Officiorum" (PDF). Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies. 1 (1): 5–17.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (1998). "Syriac Culture, 337-425". The Cambridge Ancient History. 13. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 708–719. ISBN 9780521302005.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (1998). "The Baptismal Anointings According to the Anonymous Expositio Officiorum" (PDF). Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies. 1 (1): 5–17.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (1999). From Ephrem to Romanos: Interactions Between Syriac and Greek in Late Antiquity. Aldershot: Ashgate. ISBN 9780860788003.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (1999). "St. Ephrem in the Eyes of Later Syriac Liturgical Tradition" (PDF). Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies. 2 (1): 5–25.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (1999). "The Importance of the Syriac Traditions in Ecumenical Dialogue on Christology". Christian Orient. 20: 189–197.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2000). "Greek Words in Ephrem and Narsai: A Comparative Sampling". Aram Periodical. 12 (1–2): 439–449. doi:10.2143/ARAM.12.0.504480.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2002). Kiraz, George (ed.). "Some Basic Annotation to The Hidden Pearl: The Syrian Orthodox Church and its Ancient Aramaic Heritage, I-III (Rome, 2001)" (PDF). Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies. 5 (1): 63–112. doi:10.31826/9781463214104-005. ISBN 9781463214104.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2002). Panicker, Geevarghese; Thekeparampil, Rev. Jacob; Kalakudi, Abraham (eds.). "Syriac Dialogue - An Example from the Past". The Harp. 15: 305–318. doi:10.31826/9781463233037-026. ISBN 9781463233037.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2003). "Some Diachronic Features of Classical Syriac". Hamlet on a Hill: Semitic and Greek Studies Presented to Professor T. Muraoka on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Leuven: Peeters Publishers. pp. 95–111. ISBN 9789042912151.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2003). "The Changing Faces of St Ephrem as Read in the West". Abba: The Tradition of Orthodoxy in the West. Crestwood: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press. pp. 65–80. ISBN 9780881412482.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2004). "The Earliest Syriac Literature". The Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 161–172. ISBN 9780521460835.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2004). "Ephrem and the Syriac Tradition". The Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 362–372. ISBN 9780521460835.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2004). "The Syriac Churches in Ecumenical Dialogue on Christology". Eastern Christianity: Studies in Modern History, Religion and Politics. London: Melisende. pp. 44–65. ISBN 9781901764239.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2004). "Secondary Formations from Greek Loanwords in Syriac". Studia Orientalia. 99: 31–39.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2004). "Changing Fashions in Syriac Translation Technique: The Background to Syriac Translations under the Abbasids" (PDF). Journal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies. 4: 3–14. doi:10.1515/jcsss-2009-040103. S2CID 212726306.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2005). "The Syriac Orient: A Third 'Lung' for the Church?". Orientalia Christiana Periodica. 71: 5–20.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2005). "The Use of Hijra Dating in Syriac Manuscripts: A Preliminary Investigation". Redefining Christian Identity: Cultural Interaction in the Middle East Since the Rise of Islam. Leuven: Peeters Publishers. pp. 275–290. ISBN 9789042914186.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2006). Fire from Heaven: Studies in Syriac Theology and Liturgy. Aldershot: Ashgate. ISBN 9780754659082.
• Bedjan, Paul; Brock, Sebastian P., eds. (2006). Homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug. 1. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. ISBN 9781593333287.
• Bedjan, Paul; Brock, Sebastian P., eds. (2006). Homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug. 2. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. ISBN 9781593333294.
• Bedjan, Paul; Brock, Sebastian P., eds. (2006). Homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug. 3. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. ISBN 9781593333300.
• Bedjan, Paul; Brock, Sebastian P., eds. (2006). Homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug. 4. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. ISBN 9781593333317.
• Bedjan, Paul; Brock, Sebastian P., eds. (2006). Homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug. 5. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. ISBN 9781593333324.
• Bedjan, Paul; Brock, Sebastian P., eds. (2006). Homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug. 6. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. ISBN 9781593333331.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2007). "Greek and Syriac". A History of Ancient Greek: From the Beginnings to Late Antiquity. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 819–826. ISBN 9780521833073.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2007). "Syria and Mesopotamia: The Shared Term malka mshiḥa". Redemption and Resistance: The Messianic Hopes of Jews and Christians in Antiquity. London-New York: T&T Clark. pp. 171–182. ISBN 9780567030436.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2007). "Early Dated Manuscripts of the Church of the East, 7th-13th Century". Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 21 (2): 8–34.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2007). "The Contribution of Departed Syriacists, 1997-2006" (PDF). Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies. 10 (1): 7–22.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2008). "The Syrian Orthodox Church in Modern History". Christianity in the Middle East: Studies in Modern History, Theology, and Politics. London: Melisende. pp. 17–38. ISBN 9781901764499.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2008). "Poetry and Hymnography (3): Syriac". The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 657–671. ISBN 9780199271566.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2008). "The Use of the New Testament in the Writings of Mor Ephrem". Bringing Light to the World: Syriac Tradition Re-visited. Tiruvalla: Christava Sahitya Samithy. pp. 103–118. ISBN 9788178210841.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2008). "Saints in Syriac: A Little-Tapped Resource" (PDF). Journal of Early Christian Studies. 16 (2): 181–196. doi:10.1353/earl.0.0014. S2CID 170142486.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2009). "Edessene Syriac Inscriptions in Late Antique Syria". From Hellenism to Islam: Cultural and Linguistic Change in the Roman Near East. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 289–302. ISBN 9780521875813.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2009). "Monasticism in Iraq: The Cultural Contribution". The Christian Heritage of Iraq. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. pp. 64–80. ISBN 9781607241119.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2009). "Regulations for an Association of Artisans from the Late Sasanian or Early Arab Period". Transformations of Late Antiquity: Essays for Peter Brown. Farnham: Ashgate. pp. 51–62. ISBN 9780754665533.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2009). "A Guide to Narsai's Homilies" (PDF). Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies. 12 (1): 21–40.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2009). "New Fragments of Sahdona's Book of Perfection at St Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai". Orientalia Christiana Periodica. 75 (1): 175–178.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2010). "Jacob the Annotator: Jacob's Annotations to His Revised Translation of Severus' Cathedral Homilies". Studies on Jacob of Edessa. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. pp. 1–13. doi:10.31826/9781463216634-002. ISBN 9781463216634.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2010). "A Prayer Song by St Jacob of Serugh Recovered". In Kiraz, George (ed.). Jacob of Serugh and His Times: Studies in Sixth-Century Syriac Christianity. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. pp. 29–38. doi:10.31826/9781463216092-004. ISBN 9781463216092.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2010). "Jacob's Forgotten Sughyotho". In Kiraz, George (ed.). Jacob of Serugh and His Times: Studies in Sixth-Century Syriac Christianity. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. pp. 39–50. doi:10.31826/9781463216092-005. ISBN 9781463216092.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2010). "Jacob of Serugh: A Select Bibliographical Guide". In Kiraz, George (ed.). Jacob of Serugh and His Times: Studies in Sixth-Century Syriac Christianity. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. pp. 219–244. doi:10.31826/9781463216092-013. ISBN 9781463216092.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2010). "A Criterion for Dating Undated Syriac Texts: The Evidence from Adjectival Forms in -aya". Parole de l'Orient. 35: 111–124.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2010). "Two Millennia of Christianity in Iraq". Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations. 21 (2): 175–184. doi:10.1080/09596411003619822. S2CID 145002661.
• Brock, Sebastian P.; Coakley, James F. (2011). "Arameans". Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. pp. 30–31.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2011). "Christian Palestinian Aramaic". Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. pp. 96–97.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2011). "Liturgy". Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. pp. 248–251.
• Brock, Sebastian P.; Butts, Aaron M. (2011). "Syriac Conferences". Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. pp. 389–390.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2011). "The Syriac, Christian Palestinian Aramaic and Arabic Manuscripts at Sinai". St Catherine's Monastery at Mount Sinai: Its Manuscripts and Their Conservation. London: Saint Catherine Foundation. pp. 43–50. ISBN 9780952806325.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2011). "Syriac Hagiography". The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography. 1. Farnham: Ashgate. pp. 259–283. ISBN 9780754650331.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2012). "Sinai: A Meeting Point of Georgian with Syriac and Christian Palestinian Aramaic". Caucasus between East and West: Historical and Philological Studies in Honour of Zaza Aleksidze. Tbilisi: National Center of Manuscripts. pp. 482–494.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2012). "The Monastery of Mor Gabriel: A Historical Overview and Its Wider Significance Today". The Slow Disappearance of the Syriacs from Turkey and of the Grounds of the Mor Gabriel Monastery. Münster: LIT Verlag. pp. 181–200. ISBN 9783643902689.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2012). "Ktabe Mpassqe: Dismembered and Reconstituted Syriac and Christian Palestinian Aramaic Manuscripts: Some Examples, Ancient and Modern" (PDF). Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies. 15 (1): 7–20.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2013). "Manuscripts Copied in Edessa". Orientalia Christiana: Festschrift für Hubert Kaufhold zum 70. Geburtstag. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. pp. 109–128. ISBN 9783447068857.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2014). "Greek and Latin in Syriac Script" (PDF). Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies. 17 (1): 33–52.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2015). "Fashions in Early Syriac Colophons" (PDF). Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies. 18 (2): 361–377.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2015). "Charting the Hellenization of a Literary Culture: The Case of Syriac". Intellectual History of the Islamicate World. 3 (1–2): 98–124. doi:10.1163/2212943X-00301005.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2015). "The Syriac Language and its Place within Aramaic" (PDF). Hekamtho: Syrian Orthodox Theological Journal. 1 (1): 7–19.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2016). "Miaphysite, not Monophysite!". Cristianesimo Nella Storia. 37 (1): 45–52. ISBN 9788815261687.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2016). "A Half Century of Syriac Studies". Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. 40 (1): 38–48. doi:10.1017/byz.2015.5.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2016). "Developments in Syriac Studies over Half a Century (1964-2014)". The Harp. 31: 29–44.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2016). "A Letter from the Orthodox Monasteries of the Orient Sent to Alexandria, Addressed to Severos". Severus of Antioch: His Life and Times. Leiden-Boston: Brill. p. 32-46. ISBN 9789004307995.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2016). "Les controverses christologiques en syriaque: Controverses réelles et controverses imaginées". Les controverses religieuses en syriaque. Paris: Geuthner. p. 105-117. ISBN 9782705339616.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2017). "Patriarch Severos' Letter on his Flight from Antioch in 518" (PDF). Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies. 20 (1): 25–50.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2017). "The Armenian Translation of the Syriac Life of St Ephrem and Its Syriac Source". Reflections on Armenia and the Christian Orient. Yerevan: Ankyunacar. pp. 119–130. ISBN 9789939850306.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2017). "Scribal Tradition and the Transmission of Syriac Literature in Late Antiquity and Early Islam". Scribal Practices and the Social Construction of Knowledge in Antiquity. Leuven: Peeters Publishers. pp. 61–68. ISBN 9789042933149.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2017). "A Historical Note of October 1915 Written in Dayro D-Zafaran (Deyrulzafaran)". Let Them Not Return: Sayfo - The Genocide Against the Assyrian, Syriac, and Chaldean Christians in the Ottoman Empire. New York-Oxford: Berghahn Books. p. 148-156. ISBN 9781785334993.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2018). Harrak, Amir (ed.). "Some Problems in Editing Liturgical Poetry" (PDF). Journal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies. 18: 3–14. doi:10.31826/9781463240172-002. ISBN 9781463240172.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2019). The People and the Peoples: Syriac Dialogue Poems from Late Antiquity. Oxford: Journal of Jewish Studies. ISBN 9780957522817.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2019). "Later Syriac Poetry". The Syriac World. London: Routledge. pp. 327–338. ISBN 9781138899018.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2019). "Jacob of Edessa's Letter to Addai on the Blessing of the Epiphany Water". Parole de l'Orient. 45: 119–132.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2020). "Five Women Martyrs: From Persia to Crete". The Garb of Being: Embodiment and the Pursuit of Holiness in Late Ancient Christianity. New York: Fordham University Press. pp. 221–233. ISBN 9780823287024.
• Brock, Sebastian P. (2020). Singer of the Word of God: Ephrem the Syrian and his Significance in Late Antiquity. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. doi:10.31826/9781463239619. ISBN 9781463239619.

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External links

• Sebastian Brock's faculty page at the Oriental Institute, Oxford.
• Syri.ac - Sebastian Brock: CV and Publications (June 2018)
• The Future of Syriac Studies and the Legacy of Sebastian P. Brock (2018)