Gorgias Press

Founded in 2001 Gorgias Press is an independent academic publisher of books and journals related to history, languages, and religious studies, with specific areas of expertise in the Ancient Near East, Arabic and Islamic Studies, Archaeology, Biblical Studies, Classics, Early Christianity, Jewish Studies, Linguistics, and Syriac.

Gorgias [GOR-gee-us] Press was originally created by George and Christine Kiraz as a specialty press that could keep up with their research interests. With a background in computational linguistics, George Kiraz envisioned combining cutting-edge technology with humanities research. The new company would be completely online, with no physical storefront, and it would use automation and digital printing technology rather than traditional print runs. With these tools, the press could afford to publish rare and understudied topics that were previously considered unprofitable, and Gorgias soon became known for its pioneering work in language and linguistics, religion, and especially Syriac and Eastern Christianity.
Gorgias’ philosophy of “Publishing for the Sake of Knowledge” rather than profit, attracted a number of new authors, and the press’ areas of interest rapidly began to expand. Today, Gorgias Press publishes 50-60 new titles a year, including monographs, edited volumes, translations, and more, and Gorgias books can be found in academic collections all over the world.

Lexical Aids to the Syriac New Testament Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 227
ISBN: 9781463246037
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2025
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Gorgias Handbooks
Illustrations: 46
Description:
Lexical Aids to the Syriac New Testament provides an essential tool to students of Syriac. A frequency-based glossary guides the student through the text of the Syriac New Testament’s most significant terms. In addition, verbal paradigms demystify the language’s structure, fostering a deeper understanding.
Jacob of Sarug's Homily on Christ's Entrance to Sheol Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 81
ISBN: 9781463248154
Pub Date: 21 Nov 2024
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
Recognized as a saint by both Chalcedonian and non-Chalcedonian Christians alike, Jacob of Sarug (d. 521) produced many narrative poems that have rarely been translated into English. Of his reported 760 metrical homilies, only about half survive.
Syriac Lexis and Lexica Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 220
ISBN: 9781463247898
Pub Date: 21 Nov 2024
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
No time like the present, not even the glorious pioneering decades between 1870 and 1930, has seen such a high number of able and enthusiastic contributors to Syriac studies. 'Syriac Lexis and Lexica: Compiling ancient and modern vocabularies' brings together contributions from many different corners of lexicology and lexicography, and testifies to the richness of such subjects, which still offer scholars many possible approaches and research trajectories. This volume is the result of a round table 'Lexicologie et lexicographie syriaque', which took place at the 13th Syriac Symposium, held in Paris in July 2022.
Orthodox Choreographies Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 300
ISBN: 9781463246259
Pub Date: 31 Aug 2024
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
The book offers a comprehensive anthropological study of lived Christianity in Jerusalem’s Old City, with a special focus on the Church of the Holy Sepulchre or the Church of the Anastasis. Based on in-depth ethnographic fieldwork, the study explores the experiences of the Rum Orthodox community, examining their internal dynamics and relationships with other Christian groups. Within the Church of the Anastasis, complex interplays emerge, as fragile legal agreements intermingle with ethnic and theological considerations, resulting in a complex reality of shared spaces and coexistence.
Water the Willow Tree (Arabic Edition) Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 306
ISBN: 9781463246112
Pub Date: 31 Aug 2024
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Gorgias Handbooks
Journal of Language Relationship Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 186
ISBN: 9781463247508
Pub Date: 30 Jun 2024
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Journal of Language Relationship
Illustrations: 58
Description:
The Journal of Language Relationship is an international periodical publication devoted to the issues of comparative linguistics and the history of the human language. The Journal contains articles written in English and Russian, as well as scientific reviews, discussions and reports from international linguistic conferences and seminars.
Mother Tongue Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 159
ISBN: 9781463246860
Pub Date: 30 Jun 2024
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Mother Tongue
Illustrations: 43
Description:
Journal of the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory.
The Syriac Dot / النُّقطة السريانية (Arabic Edition) Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 136
ISBN: 9781463245436
Pub Date: 15 Jun 2024
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Gorgias Handbooks
Description:
The dot is used for everything in Syriac from tense to gender, number, and pronunciation, and unsurprisingly represents one of the biggest obstacles to learning the language. In this Arabic-language edition of his book, Dr. Kiraz peels back the evolution of the dot layer by layer to explain each of its uses in detail and to show how it adopted the wide range of uses it has today.
Literary Snippets Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 197
ISBN: 9781463244026
Pub Date: 03 Jun 2024
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
This companion volume to Literary Snippets: Colophons Across Space and Time (Gorgias Press, 2023) gives examples of colophons (and their translations) from the Ancient Near East up to the pre-modern world, in Akkadian, Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, and Persian.
The Syriac Peshiṭta New Testament Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 550
ISBN: 9781463246051
Pub Date: 03 Jun 2024
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Gorgias Handbooks
Description:
This is the first Syriac reader for the New Testament. It guides the reader through the Syriac New Testament Peshitta, glossing the uncommon words and parsing difficult word forms.
The Syriac Peshiṭta Gospels Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 404
ISBN: 9781463246075
Pub Date: 03 Jun 2024
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Gorgias Handbooks
Description:
This a Syriac reader for the Gospels. It guides the reader through the Syriac Peshitta Gospels, glossing the uncommon words and parsing difficult word forms.
Key Word in Context Concordance to the Syriac New Testament Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 670
ISBN: 9781463245979
Pub Date: 03 Jun 2024
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Surath Kthob
Description:
The first comprehensive keyword-in-context concordance to the Syriac New Testament in six large volumes. It unlocks the treasure trove of the Syriac New Testament Peshitta readings and helps the reader to dive into the heart of this ancient Christian text, exploring its linguistic nuances, contextual meanings, and spiritual depths.
Key Word in Context Concordance to the Syriac New Testament Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 515
ISBN: 9781463246013
Pub Date: 03 Jun 2024
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Surath Kthob
Description:
The first comprehensive keyword-in-context concordance to the Syriac New Testament in six large volumes. It unlocks the treasure trove of the Syriac New Testament Peshitta readings and helps the reader to dive into the heart of this ancient Christian text, exploring its linguistic nuances, contextual meanings, and spiritual depths.
Key Word in Context Concordance to the Syriac New Testament Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 800
ISBN: 9781463245955
Pub Date: 03 Jun 2024
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Surath Kthob
Description:
The first comprehensive keyword-in-context concordance to the Syriac New Testament in six large volumes. It unlocks the treasure trove of the Syriac New Testament Peshitta readings and helps the reader to dive into the heart of this ancient Christian text, exploring its linguistic nuances, contextual meanings, and spiritual depths.
Key Word in Context Concordance to the Syriac New Testament Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 795
ISBN: 9781463245931
Pub Date: 03 Jun 2024
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Surath Kthob
Description:
The first comprehensive keyword-in-context concordance to the Syriac New Testament in six large volumes. It unlocks the treasure trove of the Syriac New Testament Peshitta readings and helps the reader to dive into the heart of this ancient Christian text, exploring its linguistic nuances, contextual meanings, and spiritual depths.
Key Word in Context Concordance to the Syriac New Testament Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 355
ISBN: 9781463245993
Pub Date: 03 Jun 2024
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Surath Kthob
Description:
The first comprehensive keyword-in-context concordance to the Syriac New Testament in six large volumes. It unlocks the treasure trove of the Syriac New Testament Peshitta readings and helps the reader to dive into the heart of this ancient Christian text, exploring its linguistic nuances, contextual meanings, and spiritual depths.