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1 JOURNAL OF ASSYRIAN ACADEMIC STUDIES An Alphabetical Guide to Authors ABDALLA, Michael ALICHORAN, Joseph BarABRAHEM, Abdulmesih BENJAMIN, Yoab BIRNIE, Michael. J. BUCK, Christopher Bulgur: A Key to Contemporary Assyrian Cuisine Volume VI, No. 1 Milk and its Role in Assyrian Culture The Use of Herbs in Ancient Mesopotamia The Fasting Tradition and its Practice Among Western Assyrians The Evolution of Assyrian Traditional Culinary Practices Assyro-Chaldeans in the 20th Century: From Genocide to Diaspora Assyrian Journalism Revisited Patriarch Michael the Great: Beyond his World Chronicle Assyrian Journalism: A 140-Year Experience Abdisho and Al-Hariri: A Comparative Study Volume VIII, No. 1 Assyrian Rituals of Life-Cycle Events Assyrians in Middle America The Church of the East and Theodore of Mopsuestia The East Syrian Liturgy As an Expression of Christology Sapiental Theosis: A New Approach to Ephrem the Syrian s Hymns on Paradise The Universality of the Church of the East: How Persian Was Persian Christianity? COAKLEY, James. F. A List of Assyrian Villages in Persia, August 1893 A Postscript on The Church of the East and the

2 Church of England The First Modern Assyrian Printed Book COMNENO, Maria A.L. DeKELAITA, Robert W. DeMATRAN, Lucrece EBIED, R.Y. Nestorianism in Central Asia During the First Millenium Volume XI, No. 1 On the Road to Nineveh: A Brief History of Assyrian Nationalism Median Empire? The Syriac Influence on Arabic FERNANDEZ, M. Alberto Dawn At Tell Tamir: The Assyrian Survival on the Khabur FRYE, Richard N. FULLER, Michael & Neathery GALLETTI, Mirella HASSO, Sargon HUNTER., Erica C.D. ISAAC, Ninos ISHAYA, Arian Assyria and Syria: Synonyms (Reprint); and Postscript Reply to John Joseph Archaeological Discoveries at Tell Tuneinir, Syria Italian Policy Toward Assyrians and Kurds ( ) On the Design of an Assyrian Word Processing System Volume V, No. 2 Amulets and the Assyrians of Kurdistan The Vilification of a Great Civilization: Assyria in the Face of History Contrasts in Political Persona: Five Neo-Assyrian Kings (900 BC-650 BC) The Assyrian Colony in the Canadian Prairies Ethnicity, Class and Politics: Assyrians in the History of Azerbayjan V, No. 2

3 Assyrian Immigrant Women B. Nikitine and the Assyrians: A Brief Introduction Change and Continuity in Assyrian Marriage Customs: An Epilogue A Commentary on Professor Zirinsky s Article JASIM, Peter JASTROW, Otto JOSEPH, John MACOMBER, William F. MISSICK, Stephen Andrew MURRE-van den Berg, Heleen L. NIKITINE, Basil ODISHO, Edward Y. The Problem With the Assyrian Numbering System and a Proposed Solution V, No. 1 The Turoyo Language Today Assyria and Syria: Synonyms? The Bible and the Assyrians: A Living Memory A History of the Chaldean Mass (Reprint) The Sources For A Study of the Chaldean Mass (Reprint) The Assyrian Church in the Mongolian Empire The Missionaries Assistants Family Life Among the Assyro-Chaldeans of the Plain of Urmia (Reprint; tr. Arian Ishaya) The Vowel System in Modern Assyrian II Impact of Creative Writing on Assyrian Spelling and Grammar V, No. 2 A Three-Dimensional Approach to the Teaching of the Alphabet Volume V, No. 1 Assyrian Literature in Transcaucasia Volume V, No. 2 A Comparative Analysis of Aramaic and Arabic Bilingualism and Multilingualism Among Assyrians: A Case of Language Erosion and Demise

4 Assyrian Language Maintenance and Erosion in U.S.: A World War I Immigrant Family Case Study ODISHO, Edward & WARDA, William PAULISSIAN, Robert PENNACCHIETTI, Fabrizio POIZAT, Bruno SAADI, Abdul Massih Qateeni Gabbara: A William Daniel s Legacy Medicine in Ancient Assyria and Babylonia Volume V, No. 1 Dental Care in Ancient Assyria and Babylonia Adoption in Ancient Assyria and Babylonia Volume XIII, No. 2 Zmiryata-D Rawe Sureth-Speaking Villages in Eastern Turkey The Letter of John Sedreh: A New Perspective on Nascent Islam. Volume XI, No. 1 Christological Contention and Tolerance in the Syriac Church Traditions. SADO, Stephen Nestorians of Urmi in the 1860 s SARGUIS, Francis SOLOMON, Zomaya S. Yoab Benjamin: A Personal Remembrance The New Assyrian Bible: A First Aperçu A Basic Sentence Structure in Assyrian Aramaic Volume VIII, No. 1 The Auxiliary Verb in Assyrian Aramaic Verb Conjugations in Assyrian Aramaic Verb Tenses in Assyrian Aramaic Compound, Complex, and Conditional Sentences in Assyrian Aramaic Voices, Moods and Verb Particles, Part One Voices, Moods and Verb Particles, Part Two Volume X1, No. 1 Functional and Other Exotic Sentences in Assyrian Aramaic Pronouns and Pronominal Elements in Assyrian Aramaic

5 Inflection of Strong Verbs in Assyrian Aramaic Inflection of Guttural Verbs in Assyrian Aramaic Volume XIII, No. 2 Inflection of Weak Verbs in Assyrian Aramaic, Part I, The I Conjugation SORO, Mar Bawai SORO, Mar Bawai & BIRNIE, Michael. J. Does Ephesus Unite or Divide? Is Theology of the Church of the East Nestorian? The Vienna Christological Formula in an Assyrian Perspective TSERETELI, Konstantin Assyrians in the Correspondence of Irakli II, King of Georgia TUMAN, Vladimir S. V BUS, Arthur WARDA, William Astronomical Dating of Mul-Apin Tablets Volume VI, No. 1 The Contribution of Ancient Syrian Christianity to West European Culture I The Heritage of the Contemporary Assyrians: Setting the Record Straight, Part 1 Volume VIII, No. 1 The Heritage of the Contemporary Assyrians: Setting the Record Straight, Part 2 WARDA, William & ODISHO, Edward Qateeni Gabbara: A William Daniel s Legacy WELTECKE, Dorothea YACOUB, Joseph YANA, George V. (Bebla) YILDIZ, Efrem The World Chronicle By Patriarch Michael the Great ( ): Some Reflections The Christians in Iraq: A Historical Perspective Volume V, No. 2 Myth vs. Reality The Literary Activity and Biblical Exegesis of Mar Theodorous the Interpreter The Assyrians: A Historical and Current Reality

6 The Aramaic Language and Its Classification YOUNANSARDAROUD, Helen ZIRINSKY, Michael P. Synharmonism in the Särdä:Rïd Dialect The Influence of Modern Persian on the Särdä:Rïd Dialect American Presbyterian Missionaries At Urmia During the Great War Bro3

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