@ephremishac

PhD in Liturgy. PI (FWF), ÖAW - Vienna / former ISM fellow - Yale / visiting faculty at the Central European University - Vienna.

 Graz, Austria
homepage.uni-graz.at/de/ephrem.aboud.ishac
Joined December 2014
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We're back from our break! And up first is our final keynote by @ephremishac (@oeaw) on "Who is the Public in a Digital Age? Democratization of HTR—#Syriac as Example" - inviting us to rethink and expand our understanding of “the public”
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My new piece that was published last week in the @DigiOrientalist: digitalorientalist.com/2025/…

Beyond Artificial Intelligence: Human Recognition of a Syriac Fragment in Turfan

Last October 2024, I had the great privilege to be invited to give a paper at “The International Conference on Turfan Study: New Developments on the Research of Jingjiao” in the city of Turpan (Cen…

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@ephremishac introduces the first public Syriac HTR model on @Transkribus helping make Syriac manuscripts more accessible. #digitalhumanities #SyriacStudies #history #HTR #Coding #llm digitalorientalist.com/2025/…

From Vienna to the World: Launching the First Public Syriac HTR Model on Transkribus

Readers of The Digital Orientalist, you are among the first to know! Today’s post is dedicated to the release of the first public Syriac Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) model on Transkribus and …

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Our #HTR Winter School is off to an amazing start! After Jan Odstrčilík's opening words, Prof Claudia Rapp gave a warm welcome to everyone here at @imafo_oeaw. Looking forward to productive 3 days of collaboration and discovery in the world of manuscript digital recognition! – at Vienna, Austria
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Our latest post by @ephremishac explores new OCR and HTR advancements on Archive.org Making Syriac and Arabic texts—including manuscripts and Garshuni—searchable and accessible.#Syriac #Arabic #DigitalHumanities #archive #linguistics digitalorientalist.com/2024/…

Recent Advancements: Unlocking Syriac and Arabic Texts on Archive.org

For scholars and students of Syriac and Arabic, the vast digital text library of Archive.org has always held immense potential. However, the ability to effectively search and utilize its resources,…

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My piece today on Artificial Intelligence for Grashuni-Arabic in The @DigiOrientalist! digitalorientalist.com/2024/… #AI #Garshuni #Syriac #Arabic

Artificial Intelligence for Garshuni-Arabic on Gemini

The recent rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots like Gemini has opened up exciting new possibilities for interacting with and studying languages, including Syriac. In my previous posts on …

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Thank you so much, @FaithsOxford, for the wonderful invitation: it was truly an honor!
Oxford Interfaith Forum | Interfaith Academia 🏅🏅@FaithsOxford16 Sep 2024
🚨#Eastern #Christianity in #Interfaith Contexts🚨 👉Dialogue and Fire in a Fragmentary Syriac Martyrdom Narrative 👉presented by Dr Ephrem Ishac @ephremishac @FWF_at 👉Chaired by Prof Sebastian Brock @FacultyofAMES 🗓️ THUR, 19 Sept ⏰ 5 pm UK / 12 NY 📍online More👇
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#SyriacStudies 📺 We are delighted to share a recording of a fascinating talk 👉Dialogue & Fire in a Fragmentary Syriac Martyrdom Narrative 👉Dr Ephrem Ishac @ephremishac @FWF_at 👉Chaired by Malfono Rabo Prof Sebastian Brock, FBA 📺Happy watching! youtube.com/watch?v=qVVToPBc…
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Leaving Ghent after an excellent conference on paratexts, organized by @ugent and @Brepols, where I presented on: Paratexts in Syriac Liturgical Manuscripts. I am thankful to the wonderful organizers and colleagues whom I was privileged to meet! – at Ghent, Belgium
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Ephrem Ishac @ephremishac on the power of names as attested by the Syriac liturgical manuscripts
Grigory Kessel@grigory_kessel8 May 2024
A workshop on misattributions and forgeries in the Middle Eastern manuscript traditions is happening next week in Vienna. This is a collaboration of @the_IAS and @imafo_oeaw. Co-organized by Sabine Schmidtke @scsincyberspace , George Kiraz @george_kiraz and me
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Manuscripts have colophons, and perhaps this photo at the end of our beautiful workshop can function as a pictorial colophon. Many thanks to the organizers: @scsincyberspace, @george_kiraz, @grigory_kessel, and Uta Nitschke-Joseph, who brought the spirit of @the_IAS to @oeaw!
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The opening of our workshop on Misattributions and Forgeries in Middle Eastern Manuscript Traditions, organized by IAS (Institute for Advanced Studies - Princeton): @scsincyberspace, @george_kiraz, and @grigory_kessel, at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. (@imafo_oeaw) – at Vienna, Austria
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ܩܡ ܡܪܢ ܡܢ ܩܒܪܐ! المسيح قام! Christ is Risen – at Graz, Austria
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In the International Women’s Day, I share an old colophon from the 10th century about two women: Hannah and her fellow 'Azizto, who donated a 9th century manuscript for the Syriac Church in Jerusalem.
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🌍This Worldy Wednesday, we’re exploring the link between social media and #digitalhumanities. @ephremishac's 2020 post highlights the effect digital platforms have on distributing knowledge, through the lens of #Syriac manuscript recovery. digitalorientalist.com/2020/… #history #meta
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Did you enjoy @ephremishac piece on Syriac language and #Gemini @GoogleAI ? We are out with the second part! Having led us through how #Gemini can chat in Syriac, Ephrem Ishac takes us through more useful and fun ways to use this tool! Link below 👇
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#newpost! @ephremishac experiments the use of #AI with #Syriac, in particular testing #Gemini by @Google @GoogleAI How do you think it performs? Check out part one 👇 digitalorientalist.com/2024/…

Artificial Intelligence for Syriac on Google Bard (/Gemini) – Preliminary Tests (Part1)

Since the release of the ChatGPT, many Syriac users have been hoping that this chatbot would enable Syriac as a language to steer Artificial Intelligence (AI) conversations. ChatGPT has not realize…

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#newpost! @ephremishac experiments the use of #AI with #Syriac, in particular testing #Gemini by @Google @GoogleAI How do you think it performs? Check out part one 👇 digitalorientalist.com/2024/…

Artificial Intelligence for Syriac on Google Bard (/Gemini) – Preliminary Tests (Part1)

Since the release of the ChatGPT, many Syriac users have been hoping that this chatbot would enable Syriac as a language to steer Artificial Intelligence (AI) conversations. ChatGPT has not realize…

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Just received my copies of the two Syriac volumes: #COGD 5/1-2 (West and East Syriac Synods). I am grateful to all the contributors and to everyone who worked very hard to reach this twin-birth, especially Malphono Robert Kitchen. Indeed, it is a great Christmas present 🎁 😀 🎄!
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New publication: General Councils of the Eastern Christian Churches in the Corpus Christianorum. Brepols 2023, 2 Vols., co-edited by our #Byzanzforschung-colleague Ephrem ISHAC. Congratulations for this massive & groundbreaking work! @imafo_oeaw, @oeaw corpuschristianorum.org/post…

General Councils of the Eastern Christian Churches

Corpus Christianorum. Conciliorum Oecumenicorum Generaliumque Decreta (CCCOGD) focuses on what has been decreed in different forms by those church councils recognised as ecumenical by one or more...

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📚Dive into the world of DASH (Digital Analysis of #Syriac #Handwriting) with @ephremishac's interview with @Stanford Professor Michael Penn. Discover how this tool is used in #paleography of #manuscripts! #digitalhumanities #graphology @StanfordCIDR digitalorientalist.com/?p=11…
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