Prof. Dr. Aaron Michael Butts

• BeInf – Beyond Influence: The Connected Histories of Ethiopic and Syriac Christianity.
  Sept. 2022-Aug. 2027
  ERC Consolidator Grant

• Editor-in-Chief of Aramaic Studies
• Editor-in-Chief of Supplements to Aramaic Studies (Brill)
• Co-editor of Eastern Christian Texts in Translation (Peeters)

Editorial Boards

• Journal of Semitic Studies
• Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies
• Eastern Christian Cultures in Contact (Brepols)
• Eastern Christian Texts (Brill)
• CUA Studies in Early Christianity (CUA Press)
• Fathers of the Church (CUA Press)
• Library of Early Christianity (CUA Press)
• Languages of the Ancient Near East (LANE) (Penn State University Press)
• Lehrbücher orientalischer Sprachen (Ugarit Verlag)

• Ethiopic Paradigms. A Summary of Classical Ethiopic (Gǝˁǝz) Morphology (Leuven: Peeters, 2022).
• (with Kristian S. Heal and Sebastian P. Brock), Clavis to the Metrical Homilies of Narsai (Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium 690, Subsidia 142; Leuven: Peeters, 2021).
• (editor, with Simcha Gross), Jews and Syriac Christians: Intersections across the First Millennium (Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism 180; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020).
• (editor, with Robin Darling Young), Syriac Christian Culture: Beginnings to Renaissance (Washington: The Catholic University of America Press, 2020).
• (editor, with Kristian S. Heal and Robert A. Kitchen), Narsai: Rethinking his Work and his World (Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity 121; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020).
• Language Change in the Wake of Empire: Syriac in its Greco-Roman Context (Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic 11; Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2016).
• (with Simcha Gross), The History of the ‘Slave of Christ’: From Jewish Child to Christian Martyr (Persian Martyr Acts in Syriac: Text and Translation 6; Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2016).
• (editor), Semitic Languages in Contact (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 82; Leiden: Brill, 2015).
• (editor, with Sebastian P. Brock, George A. Kiraz, and Lucas Van Rompay), Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2011).
• Jacob of Sarug’s Homily on the Tower of Babel (Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2009).

• “Aksumite Coins,” in Christine Sciacca (ed.), Walters Art Museum Exhibition Catalogue (Baltimore: Walters Art Museum). Forthcoming.
• “Once Again, the Twin Histories of Arabic and Aramaic (with a focus on Syriac),” in Antoine Borrut, Manuela Ceballos, and Alison Vacca (eds.), Navigating Language in the early Islamic World (Turnhout: Brepols). Forthcoming.
• (with Simcha Gross and Michael Hensley), “Once Again on ʾbk wdm in Ethiopian Sabaic,” Aethiopica. Forthcoming.
• “Syriac samminē (pl) ‘pomace (?)’ and an Akkadian Cognate,” Aramaic Studies 20.1 (2022): 36-43.
• “An Aramaic Cognate to Akkadian -iš, Hebrew -ɔ, and Ugaritic -h,” in H. H. Hardy II, Joseph Lam, and Eric D. Reymond (eds.), “Like ʾIlu Are You Wise”: Studies in Northwest Semitic Languages and Literatures in Honor of Dennis G. Pardee (Chicago: Oriental Institute Press, 2022), 539-557.
• (with Dexter Brown), “Ascension of Isaiah, Chapters 6-11 (Ethiopic Version),” in Mark DelCogliano (ed.), The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings, Volume 3. Christ (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022). 3-15.
• “Odes of Solomon 7, 19, 41, and 42,” in Mark DelCogliano (ed.), The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings, Volume 3. Christ (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022). 84-91.
• “Jacob of Serugh, Letter 14,” in Mark DelCogliano (ed.), The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings, Volume 3. Christ (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022). 304-308.
• “Simeon of Beth Arsham, Letter on Bar Ṣawmā and the heresy of the Nestorians,” in Mark DelCogliano (ed.), The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings, Volume 3. Christ (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022). 309-316.
• “From Syriac to Arabic to Ethiopic: Loci of Change in Transmission,” in R. B. Finazzi, F. Forte, C. Milani, and M. Moriggi (eds.), Circolazione di testi e superamento delle barriere linguistiche e culturali nelle tradizioni orientali (Orientalia Ambrosiana 7; Milan: Biblioteca Ambrosiana – Centro Ambrosiano, 2021). 21-57.
• “Ethiopian Christianity,” in James E. Walters, Eastern Christianity: A Reader. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2021), 367-412.
• “Letter 47 by Timothy I (d. 823),” in James E. Walters, Eastern Christianity: A Reader. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2021), 123-128.
• “Theodore Bar Koni, Scholion, Mēmrā 10 (selection),” in James E. Walters, Eastern Christianity: A Reader. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2021), 129-141.
• “A Marginal Case of Secondary Opening in Gǝˁǝz,” Journal of Semitic Studies 65 (2020): 495-509.
• “Reclaiming Narsai’s Mēmrā of the Feast of the Victorious Cross,” Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 23 (2020): 3-30.
• “Diversity in the Christian Arabic Reception of Jacob of Serugh (d. 521),” in Barbara Roggema and Alexander Treiger (eds.), Patristic Literature in Arabic Translations (Leiden: Brill, 2020). 89-128.
• (with Simcha Gross), “Introduction,” in Aaron Michael Butts and Simcha Gross (eds.), Jews and Syriac Christians: Intersections across the First Millennium (Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism; Tübingen 180: Mohr Siebeck, 2020). 1-26.
• “Narsai’s Life and Work,” in Aaron M. Butts, Kristian S. Heal, and Robert A. Kitchen (eds.), Narsai: Rethinking his Work and his World (Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity 121; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020). 1-8.
• “A Misapplication of eliminatio codicum descriptorum in the Manuscript Tradition of Narsai (d. ca. 500),” Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin 5.2 (2019): 77-100.
• “Gǝʿǝz (Classical Ethiopic),” in John Huehnergard and Na‘ama Pat-El (eds.), The Semitic Language Family (New York: Routledge, 2019). 117-144.
• “The Classical Syriac Language,” in Daniel King (ed.), The Syriac World (New York: Routledge, 2019). 222-242.
• “12.4 Psalms 151-155: Syriac,” in M. Henze and Frank Feder (volume editors), et al., Textual History of the Bible, vol. 2 (Leiden: Brill, 2019).
• (with Ted Erho), “Jacob of Serugh in the Ambrosian Homiliary (ms. Ambros. X.198 sup. and its membra disiecta),” Δελτίο Βιβλικῶν Μελετῶν / Deltio Biblikōn Meletōn 33 (2018): 37-54.
• (with Enrique Jiménez), “Good News (šimûtu)!,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 138 (2018): 859-862.
• “The Aramaic Šap̄ˁel in its Semitic Context,” Aramaic Studies 16 (2018): 117-143.
• “The Greco-Roman Context of the Syriac Language,” in M. Farina (ed.), Les auteurs syriaques et leur langue (Études syriaques 15; Paris: Geuthner, 2018). 137-165.
• “North Arabian Features in the Nabataean Aramaic Inscriptions from Madāʾin Ṣāliḥ: A Contact-Linguistic Analysis,” in R. Smith (ed.), Near Eastern and Arabian Essays: Studies in Honour of John F. Healey (Journal of Semitic Studies Supplement Series; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018). 45-65.
• “Manuscript Transmission as Reception History: The Case of Ephrem the Syrian (d. 373),” Journal of Early Christian Studies 25 (2017): 281-306.
• “Assyrian Christians,” in Eckart Frahm (ed.), Companion to Assyria (Malden: Wiley Blackwell, 2017). 599-612.
• (with Kristian Heal, Geoffrey Moseley, and Joseph Witztum), “Notes on the History of Joseph (CAVT 113, 114) and the Death of Joseph (CAVT 116, 117),” Apocrypha 28 (2017): 233-237.
• “A Syriac Dialogue Poem between the Vine and Cedar by Dawid bar Pawlos,” apud Enrique Jiménez, The Babylonian Disputation Poems (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 87; Leiden: Brill, 2017). 462-473.
• “The Question-and-Answer Part of Ibn aṭ‑Ṭayyib’s The Paradise of Christianity: An Ethiopic Translation (ms EMML no. 1839),” in Adam Carter McCollum (ed.), Studies in Ethiopian Languages, Literature, and History. Festschrift for Getatchew Haile. Presented by his Friends and Colleagues (Äthiopistische Forschungen 83; Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2017). 257-281.
• “Between Aramaic *ʾiðayn and Greek δέ: The Linguistic History of Syriac den,” in H. Teule, E. Keser-Kayaalp, K. Akalın, N. Doru, M. S. Toprak (eds.), Syriac in its Multi-Cultural Context (Eastern Christian Studies 23; Louvain: Peeters, 2017). 13-30.
• “A Note on Loanverbs in Semitic,” Journal of Semitic Studies 62 (2017): 293-302.
• “The Etymology of Aramaic (and Hebrew) √prns ‘to distribute, supply’,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 137 (2017): 245-251.
• (with Fr. Maximous el-Antony and Jesper Blid), “An Early Ethiopic Manuscript Fragment (12th-13th cent.) from the Monastery of St. Antony (Egypt),” Aethiopica 19 (2016): 27-51. 
• “The Christian Arabic Transmission of Jacob of Serugh (d. 521): The Sammlungen,” Journal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies 16 (2016): 39-59.
• “Latin Words in Classical Syriac,” Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 19 (2016): 123-192.
• “The Integration of Consonants in Greek Loanwords in Syriac,” Aramaic Studies 14 (2016): 1-35.
• “The Use of syāmē as a Phonological Marker in Syriac,” Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 18 (2015): 93-109.
• “The Use of Syriac Derivational Suffixes with Greek Loanwords,” Orientalia 83 (2014): 207-237.
• “In Search of Sources for Ibn al-Ṭayyib’s The Paradise of Christianity: Theodore Bar Koni’s Scholion,” Journal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies 14 (2014): 3-29.
• “Embellished with Gold: The Ethiopic Reception of Syriac Biblical Exegesis,” Oriens Christianus 97 (2013/2014): 137-159.
• “A Note on hbrk bʿl in the Phoenician Inscription from Karatepe,” MAARAV 20 (2013): 189-198.
• “Greek μέν in Early Syriac,” Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 16 (2013): 211-223.
• “Reduplicated Nominal Patterns in Semitic,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 131 (2011): 83-108.
• (with Humphrey Hill Hardy II), “A Revised Reading of a Nabataean Inscription from Umm al‑Jimāl,” Journal of Semitic Studies 55 (2010): 385-389.
• “The Etymology and Derivation of the Syriac Adverbial Ending -ɔʾiθ,” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 69 (2010): 79-86.
• “A Note on neʾdārî  in Ex 15:6,” Vetus Testamentum 60 (2010): 167-171.
• “The Biography of the Lexicographer Ishoʿ bar ʿAli (ʿĪsā b. ʿAlī),” Oriens Christianus 93 (2009): 60-71.                            
• “The Afflictions of Exile. A Syriac Memrā by David Puniqāyā,” Le Muséon 122 (2009): 53-80.
• “A Sahidic Fragment of Matthew 17:20-18:22: P.Duk.inv. 241,” Journal of Coptic Studies 8 (2006): 43-48.
• “Observations on the Verbless Clause in the Language of Neophyti I,” Aramaic Studies 4 (2006): 53-67.
• “P.Duk.inv. 797 (U) – I Kingdoms 14:24-50 in Sahidic,” Le Muséon 118 (2005): 7-20.

• Review of Alessandro Bausi (ed., with assistance from Eugenia Sokolinski), 150 Years after Dillmann’s Lexicon: Perspectives and Challenges of Gəʿəz Studies (Supplement to Aethiopica 5; Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2016) in Aethiopica 22 (2019): 289-291.
• Review of Leonid Kogan, Genealogical Classification of Semitic. The Lexical Isoglosses (Boston – Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015) in Journal of Near Eastern Studies 77 (2018): 144-149.
• Review of Jitse H. F. Dijkstra and Greg Fisher (eds.), Inside and out: Interactions between Rome and the peoples on the Arabian and Egyptian frontiers in Late Antiquity (Late antique history and religion 8; Leuven: Peeters, 2014) in Journal of Roman Studies 107 (2017): 473-474.
• Review of M. Sokoloff, A Dictionary of Christian Palestinian Aramaic (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 234; Louvain: Peeters, 2014) and M. Sokoloff, Texts of Various Contents in Christian Palestinian Aramaic (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 235; Louvain: Peeters, 2014) in Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 20 (2017): 1-7.
• Review of Marco Moriggi, A Corpus of Syriac Incantation Bowls (Magical and Religious Literature of Late Antiquity 3; Leiden: Brill, 2014) in Journal of Near Eastern Studies 74 (2015): 361-363.
• Review of A. Mengozzi, Religious Poetry in Vernacular Syriac from Northern Iraq (17th-20th centuries). An Anthology (CSCO 627-629; Syr. 240-241; Louvain: Peeters, 2011) in Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 16 (2013): 153-156.
• Review of David Thomas and Barbara Roggema (eds.), with Juan Pedro Monferrer Sala, Johannes Pahlitzsch, Mark Swanson, Herman Teule, and John Tolan, Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographic History. Volume 1 (600-900) (History of Christian-Muslim Relations 11; Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2009) in Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 15 (2012): 408-413.
• Review of Edward M. Cook, A Glossary of Targum Onkelos. According to Alexander Sperber’s Edition (Leiden - Boston: Brill, 2008) in Journal of Near Eastern Studies 71 (2012): 157-158.
• Review of John F. Healey, Aramaic Inscriptions & Documents of the Roman Period (Textbook of Syrian Semitic Inscriptions IV; Oxford – New York: Oxford University Press, 2009) in Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 14.1 (2011): 171-175.
• Review of Holger Gzella and Margaretha L. Folmer (eds.), Aramaic in its Historical and Linguistic Setting (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2008) in Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 12.2 (2009): 301-305.