Joseph Amar

Joseph Amar is professor emeritus of Syriac, Arabic, and Early Christianity at the University of Notre Dame. He is writing a cultural and intellectual biography of Ephrem the Syrian. He is a priest in the Syriac Maronite Church.

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‘Women Are Proclaiming the Word’

While St. Ephrem of Syria did not explicitly call for ordination of women to the diaconate, he envisioned radical equality between the sexes in ministry.

By Joseph Amar

July 21, 2020

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Synod on the Amazon

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St. Ephrem’s Lament

The territory along the Syrian-Turkish border is the ancestral homeland of an ancient tradition of Aramaic-speaking Christianity. They’ve been betrayed before.

By Joseph Amar

November 19, 2019

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