The People and the Peoples

Sebastian P. Brock, FBA is acknowledged as one of the foremost scholars in the field of Syriac studies today. He is a former Reader in Syriac Studies at the University of Oxford and currently an Emeritus Fellow at Wolfson College. Born in 1938, after attending Eton College, he studied Classics and Oriental Studies at Cambridge University and wrote his doctoral dissertation on the text of Septuagint at Oxford. He has taught at the Universities of Birmingham, Cambridge and Oxford (from 1974 until his retirement in 2003). He is the recipient of a number of honorary doctorates. He has published extensively in the field of Syriac literature, liturgical texts, monastic literature and has edited a number of new texts.

1.General introduction; 2.Manuscripts and earlier editions; 3. The dialogue poem: Synagogue and Church; 4.The dialogue poem: Sion and Church; 5.The dialogue poem: Synagogue and Our Lord; 6.The dialogue poem: Pharisees and Our Lord; 7. Appendix: Fragmentary Dialogues in Liturgical Books