Reference and Function: Semitic Roots and Chinese Characters

Do Chinese characters work the way Semitic roots do? Fr. Marc Boulos talks with Matthew Franklin Cooper about his comparative lexicography of Chinese, Hebrew and Arabi...

The Tenth Belongs to God

Deliverance is not for sale. Balak sent the elders of Moab and Midian to Balaam with the fee for divination in their hands. Pharaoh's magicians asked about their rewar...

The Illusion of Choice

This week the Bible as Literature podcast steps outside its usual format. Fr. Marc Boulos sits down with two parishioners of St. Elizabeth: Bethany Saros, former paris...

Crossing into Judgment

Fr. Marc Boulos presents "Crossing into Judgment: The ʿIbri, the ʿArabah, and the Philological Manufacture of an Ethnos" at the 2026 OCABS Symposium, held October 2–3,...

The Scriptural Canon

Fr. Paul Nadim Tarazi's final public presentation, "The Scriptural Canon," delivered as the keynote address at the 2026 OCABS Symposium, held Saturday, October 3, 2026...