Word: syriac
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...forced hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Christians to flee the country, many of them to neighboring Syria and Jordan. Mansur, the predominantly Sunni district that houses Mar Yousif, was a dangerous insurgent stronghold until one year ago. And in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, where many of the Syriac Catholic congregants hail from, the persecution continues. In February, the head of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Mosul, Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho, was kidnapped and murdered. Over a dozen others were killed this fall in direct religious targeting...
...next 370 as a sanctuary and training ground for the preeminent minds of the world: Matt Damon, Natalie Portman, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, and the little-known John Adams. The scholars educated themselves in the “core” curriculum of the age: scriptures, the languages of Syriac and Chaldee, ethics, imitation, epitome, and declamation. In the 1970s, this core was updated to include Lit & Arts C. Historians of the future will consider these 370 to be Harvard’s golden...
Harvard considers factors such as course rigor and professors’ recommendations on top of GPA, according to Senior Lecturer on Syriac James F. Coakley ’68, secretary of the chapter...
...Coakley, an author of a book on Harvard diplomas and a senior lecturer in Syriac, pointed out the inconsistency, “Even in Latin the diploma always said ‘Baccalaureus in Artibus’ with B before A; so why the abbreviation was AB—and still more, why it should still be so now that the diploma is in English —I don’t know...
Aramaic 124a. Readings in Syriac...