Widely regarded as a premier journal dedicated to the study of Syriac, Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies was established in 1998 as a venue devoted exclusively to the discipline. An organ of Beth Mardutho, the Syriac Institute, the journal appears semi-annually and will be printed in annual editions. A peer-reviewed journal, Hugoye is a respected academic source for up-to-date information about the state of Syriac studies and for discovering what is going on in the field. Contributors include some of the most respected names in the world of Syriac today.

Volume 1 includes the following articles: “The Baptismal Anointings According to the Anonymous Expositio Officiorum” by Sebastian Brock; “Ms Vat. Syr. 268 and the Revisional Development of the Harklean Margin” by Andreas Juckel; “A Bibliographical Clavis to the Works of Jacob of Edessa” by Dirk Kruisheer and Lucas van Rompay; “An Epiphany of Mystical Symbols: Jacob of Sarug’s Mêmrâ 109 on Abraham and His Types” by Richard E. McCarron; “A Single Human Being Divided in Himself: Ephraim the Syrian, the Man in the Middle” by Andrew Palmer; “The Tears of the Sinful Woman: a Theology of Redemption in the Homilies of St. Ephraim and his Followers” by Hannah Hunt; “St. Ephraim’s Influence on the Greeks” by David G. K. Taylor; “A Spiritual Father for the Whole Church: the Universal Appeal of St. Ephraem the Syrian” by Sidney H. Griffith; “Ephrem in Christian Palestinian Aramaic” by Alain Desreumaux; “St. Ephrem the Syrian’s Thought and Imagery as an Inspiration to Byzantine Artists” by Zaga Gavrilovic; “Ephraim the Syrian in Anglo-Saxon England” by Jane Stevenson; and “John Wesley and Ephraem Syrus” by Gordon Wakefield.