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" Mixed Up by Time and Chance? Using Digital Methods to “Re-Orient” the Syriac Religious Literature of Late Antiquity "
David A. Michelson

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1082507
Doc. No	:	LA126136
Call No	:	‭10.1163/21659214-90000073‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	David A. Michelson
Title & Author	:	Mixed Up by Time and Chance? Using Digital Methods to “Re-Orient” the Syriac Religious Literature of Late Antiquity [Article]\ David A. Michelson
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture
Date	:	2016
Volume/ Issue Number	:	5/1
Page No	:	136–182
Abstract	:	The British Library’s collection of approximately 1000 Syriac manuscripts is one of the world’s richest collections of materials for the study of Syriac Christianity. These manuscripts were catalogued in the nineteenth century shortly after a large collection of over 500 manuscripts were acquired by the British from the monastery of Dayr al-Suryān in Egypt. This article examines the intellectual assumptions that guided the nineteenth-century cataloguing efforts and offers a methodological proposal for how a new digital catalogue of the manuscripts could and should differ. New methods of digital representation can permit users to engage the Dayr al-Suryān manuscripts and the whole of the British Library Syriac collection from multiple, varied, and even conflicting perspectives. Several such digital approaches are being implemented in Syriaca.org’s digital catalogue of the British Library Syriac manuscripts. The diversity of such digital approaches promises to open new insights into the history of Christianity in late antiquity and beyond.
Descriptor	:	British Library
Descriptor	:	British Museum
Descriptor	:	Codicology
Descriptor	:	Digital Humanities
Descriptor	:	Diverse Knowledges
Descriptor	:	Graph Databases
Descriptor	:	History of Christianity
Descriptor	:	Linked Open Data
Descriptor	:	Manuscripts
Descriptor	:	Orientalism
Descriptor	:	Postcolonial Studies
Descriptor	:	Religion Society
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	Social Sciences
Descriptor	:	Sociology of Religion
Descriptor	:	Syriaca.org
Descriptor	:	Traditional Cultural Expressions
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/21659214-90000073‬