Dr Sebastian Brock FBA

Syriac Studies
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
1977
Subjects
Religion

Summary

Born 1938 to James Brock (archaeologist) and Ursula Brock (nee Cooper, silk weaver). 1966, married to Helen M.C.Brock (nee Hughes; archaeologist). Educated at Eton College (King's Scholar), and Trinity College Cambridge (Classics and Oriental Languages [Hebrew and Aramaic]); DPhil Oxford 1966. Assistant Lecturer, then Lecturer, University of Birmingham (Department of Theology) 1964-1967; Lecturer in Hebrew, then Lecturer in Hebrew and Aramaic, Cambridge University, 1967-1974; Lecturer in Aramaic and Syriac, then Reader in Syriac Studies, Oxford University, 1974-2003; 2003- Emeritus Reader in Syriac Studies and Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford.

Current post

Emeritus Reader in Syriac Studies, University of Oxford, and Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford

Past appointments

Corpus Christi College University of Oxford Formerly Reader in Syriac Studies, University of Oxford, and Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford

1990 -

University of Oxford Lecturer, Reader in Aramaic and Syriac

1974 -

University of Cambridge Lecturer in Hebrew and Aramaic

1967 - 1974

Publications

Treasure-House of Mysteries: Explorations of the Sacred Text through Poetry in the Syriac Tradition 2012 (Yonkers NY)

The luminous eye: the spiritual world vision of St Ephrem 1985

Isaac of Nineveh (Isaac the Syrian) 'The second part' chapters IV-XLI 1995

Catalogue of Syriac fragments (new finds) in the library of the Monastery of St Catherine, Mount Sinai 1995

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor David Wang FBA

Modern and Contemporary Chinese and Sinophone literature; comparative theory of narratology; literature and thought in the making of Chinese modernity

David Wang FBA

Professor Robert Hillenbrand FBA

Islamic art, with particular reference to Iran and Syria; medieval architecture, book painting and iconography

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Professor Andrew Louth FBA

The history and theology of the Christian Church in Late Antiquity and in the Byzantine Empire; modern Eastern Orthodox theology

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