# overview
Schwartz is Associate Professor of History and Associate Director of the Center of Digital Humanities Research. He is also the Director of Syriaca.org and General Editor of Syriac Persons, Events, and Relations, a prosopographical project producing a linked-open database encoded in TEI, an XML markup language. The forthcoming digital publication will provide new data about people in Syriac texts: their names, dates, important events, possessions, ethnic identity, language, education, people to whom they wrote letters, religion, vocation, etc.

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Trinity International University - (Deerfield, Illinois, United States)

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University of California Los Angeles - (Los Angeles, California, United States)

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Princeton University - (Princeton, New Jersey, United States)

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Princeton University - (Princeton, New Jersey, United States)

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Paideia and Cult Christian Initiation in Theodore of Mopsuestia

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Discourses of Religious Violence and Christian Charity: The Christianization of Syria in Jacob of Sarug's On the Fall of the Idols

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Tradition and Innovation: Baptismal Rite and Mystagogy in Theodore of Mopsuestia and Narsai of Nisibis

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Preaching Christology in the Roman Near East: A Study of Jacob of Serugh

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Modeling a Born-Digital Factoid Prosopography using the TEI and Linked Data

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From manuscript catalogues to a handbook of Syriac literature: Modeling an infrastructure for Syriaca.org

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Journal of Data Mining & Digital Humanities, Special Issue on Computer-Aided Processing of Intertextuality in Ancient Languages

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Keeping Secrets and Making Christians: Catechesis and the Revelation of the Christian Mysteries

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Syriaca.org: New Digital Tools for the Study of the Medieval Middle East

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Religious Violence and Eschatology in the Syriac Julian Romance

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16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Conversion in Late Antiquity: Christianity, Islam, and Beyond Papers from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar, University of Oxford, 2009-2010

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Syriaca.org:  Advanced Reference Resources for Middle Eastern History

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National Endowment for the Humanities - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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Texas A&M University; History; 4236 TAMU

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