Sebastian Brock

Sebastian Paul Brock (born 1938, London) is generally acknowledged as the foremost and most influential academic in the field of Syriac language today. [cite journal| last = AbouZayd| first = Shafiq| year = 1993| title = Sebastian Paul Brock: Life and Work| journal = Aram Periodical| volume = 5 ("A Festschrift for Dr. Sebastian P. Brock")| issue = 1 & 2| pages = 2| publisher = Peeters| location = Leuven| issn = 0959-4213| quote = The Syriac heritage owes much to Sebastian Brock and, as in the old adage "all roads lead to Rome", all aspects of Syriac studies lead one way or another to Sebastian Brock.. His voluminous work on Syriac, and related fields, is unique in our modern times. ] He is a former Reader in Syriac Studies at the University of Oxford's Oriental Institute and currently a Professorial Fellow at Wolfson College. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.

Sebastian Brock completed his BA degree at the University of Cambridge, and a DPhil at Oxford. He is the recipient of a number of honorary doctorates and has been awarded the Medal of Saint Ephrem the Syrian by the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch. He is a widely published author on Syriac topics. His best selling books are "The Luminous Eye: The Spiritual World Vision of Saint Ephrem the Syrian" (Kalamazoo: Cistercian. ISBN 0-87907-524-4) and "The Syriac Fathers on Prayer and the Spiritual Life" (Kalamazoo: Cistercian. ISBN 0-87907-601-1).

He is married to Helen Hughes-Brock, an archaeologist specialising in Minoan Crete and Mycenaean Greece.

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* [http://faculty.orinst.ox.ac.uk/index2.php?member=brock Sebastian Brock's faculty page at the Oriental Institute, Oxford] .