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 8 includes the following articles: “Methods of Instructing Syriac-Speaking Christians to Care for the Poor” by Nancy A. Khalek; “The Colloquy of Moses on Mount Sinai: Where Syriac Christianity Meets Islamic Spain and Africa between the 16th and 19th Centuries” by Karla R. Suomala; “Jacob of Edessa's version of Exodus 1 and 28” by Alison Salvesan; “Revisiting the Daughters of the Covenant: Women’s Choirs and Sacred Song in Ancient Syriac Christianity” by Susan A. Harvey; “Septuaginta and Peshitta. Jacob of Edessa quoting the Old Testament in Ms BL Add 17134” by Andreas Juckel; and “Nisibis as the background to the Life of Ephrem the Syrian” by Paul Russell.