Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) 1976
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  Previous Appointments & Affiliations

  • Professor of Religious Studies, Religious Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2000 - 2016
  • Chair of the Department of Religion, Religious Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2011 - 2012
  • Interim Chairman in the Department of Religion, Religious Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2010
• Recognition
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  In the News

  • DEC 2, 2015

    PolitiFact

    Lucas Van Rompay: Identifying Middle Eastern Christians can be harder than Bush suggests
• Expertise
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  Global Scholarship

  • Expertise

    • Iraq (Country) 
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Books

    • Van Rompay, L., S. Miglarese, and D. Morgan. The long shadow of vatican II: Living faith and negotiating authority since the second vatican council, 2015.
    • Van Rompay, L., and S. P. Brock. Catalogue of the Syriac Manuscripts and Fragments in the Library of Deir al-Surian, Wadi al-Natrun (Egypt). Vol. 227. Louvain: Peeters, 2014.
    • Rompay, L Van, F. Petit, and J. J. S. Weitenberg. Eusèbe d’Émèse. Commentaire de la Genèse. Texte arménien de l’édition de Venise (1980), fragments grecs et syriaques, avec traductions. Peeters, 2011.
    • Van Rompay, L., and J. Frishman, eds. The Book of Genesis in Jewish and Oriental Christian Interpretation. Peeters Publishers, 1997.

  • Academic Articles

    • Van Rompay, Lucas. “Prayer and worship in Eastern Christianities, 5th to nth centuries.” Tijdschrift Voor Geschiedenis 131, no. 1 (2018): 170–71.
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    • Van Rompay, L. “Le couvent des syriens en égypte aux 15^E et 16^E siècles: L'Apport des colophons syriaques de la bibliothèque nationale de France.” Parole De L’Orient 41 (January 1, 2015): 549–72.
    • Van Rompay, L. “The monastery of Syrians in Egypt in the 15th and 16th centuries: The contribution of Syriac colophons of the National Library of France.” Parole De L’Orient 41 (January 1, 2015): 549–72.
    • Van Rompay, L., S. Miglarese, and D. Morgan. “Introduction.” The Long Shadow of Vatican Ii: Living Faith and Negotiating Authority Since the Second Vatican Council, January 1, 2015, 1–7.
    • Rompay, Lucas van. “Interpreting the Bible and Aristotle in late antiquity. The Alexandrian commentary tradition between Rome and Baghdad. Edited by Joseph Lössl and John W. Watt. Pp. xv+343 incl. 2 figs. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2011. £70. 978 1 4094 1007 2.” The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 64, no. 2 (April 2013): 379–80. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022046912003272.
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    • Rompay, L Van. “Review of A. Harrak, Syriac and Garshuni Inscriptions of Iraq.” Syria 89 (2012): 448–51.
    • Rompay, L Van. “From Waste to Wealth.” Edited by The Levantine Foundation and The Levantine London. Newsletter of the Levantine Foundation 3 (2009): 3and7-3and7.
    • Rompay, L Van. “Severus, Patriarch of Antioch (512-518) in the Greek, Syriac, and Coptic Traditions.” Journal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies 8 (2008): 3–22.
    • Rompay, L Van. “Review of: A. Schmidt and D. Gonnet (eds.), Les Peres grecs dans la tradition syriaque (2007).” Le Museon 121 (2008): 471-473.
    • Rompay, L Van. “Review of: S.P. Brock, The Wisdom of St. Isaac of Nineveh (2006).” Edited by Society of Biblical Literature. Review of Biblical Literature, 2008.
    • Van Rompay, Lucas. “Greek Fathers in the Syriac tradition (Syriac studies, 4).” Museon 121, no. 3–4 (2008): 471–73.
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    • Van Rompay, L. “Syriac Studies: The Challenges of the Coming Decade.” Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 10, no. 1 (January 2007).
    • Rompay, L Van. “Review of: A. Schmidt and S. Westphalen, Christliche Wandmalereien in Syrien (2005).” Eastern Christian Art in Its Late Antique and Islamic Contexts 4 (2007): 189–90.
    • Van Rompay, L. “An Ascetic Reading of the Book of Job. Fragments from a Syriac Commentary Attributed to John the Solitary (Ms. London, British Library, Add. 18814, f. 91r-95r).” Le Museon: Revue D’Etudes Orientales 119 (2006): 1–24.
    • Van Rompay, L. “Mallpânâ dilan Suryâyâ. Ephrem in the Works of Philoxenus of Mabbog: Respect and Distance.” Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 7, no. 1 (January 2004).
    • Van Rompay, L. “Mallpânâ dilan Suryâyâ. Ephrem in the Works of Philoxenus of Mabbog: Respect and Distance.” Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 7, no. 1 (January 2004).
    • Van Rompay, L. “Some Further Notes on Thecla in Syriac Christianity.” Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 6, no. 2 (July 2003).
    • Van Rompay, Lucas. “The Frescoes of Mar Musa Al-Habashi: A Study in Medieval Painting in Syria. Erica Cruikshank Dodd , Leonard C. Chiarelli.” Speculum 78, no. 3 (July 2003): 871–73. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0038713400131756.
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    • Van Rompay, L. “Thecla in Syriac Christianity. Preliminary Observations.” Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 5, no. 2 (July 2002).
    • Van Rompay, L. “Syriac texts [= part 2 of K.C. Innemée and L. Van Rompay, “Deir al-Surian (Egypt): New Discoveries of 2001-2002].” Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 5, no. 2 (July 2002).
    • Van Rompay, L. “Takritans in the Egyptian Desert: The Monastery of the Syrians in the Ninth Century.” Journal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies 1 (2001): 41–60.
    • Van Rompay, L. “Syriac Papyrus Fragments Recently Discovered in Deir al-Surian (Egypt).” Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 4, no. 1 (January 2001).
    • Van Rompay, L. “A New Syriac Inscription in Deir al-Surian (Egypt).” Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 4, no. 1 (January 2001).
    • Van Rompay, L. “Syriac Inscriptions [= part 2 of K.C. Innemée and L. Van Rompay, “Deir al-Surian (Egypt): New Discoveries of January 2000”].” Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 3, no. 2 (July 2000).
    • Van Rompay, L. “Past and Present Perceptions of Syriac Literary Tradition.” Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 3, no. 1 (January 2000).
    • Van Rompay, L. “L’informateur syrien de Basile de Césarée. À propos de Genèse 1,2.” Orientalia Christiana Periodica: Commentarii De Re Orientali Aetatis Christianae Sacra Et Profana 58 (1992): 245–51.
    • Van Rompay, L. “Palmyra, Emesa en Edessa: Semitische steden in het gehelleniseerde Nabije Oosten.” Phoenix 36 (1990): 73–84.
    • Van Rompay, L. “John Chrysostom’s «Ad Theodorum lapsum». Some remarks on the oriental tradition.” Orientalia Lovaniensa Periodica 19 (1988): 91–106.
    • Van Rompay, L. “A Letter of the Jews to the Emperor Marcian concerning the Council of Chalcedon.” Orientalia Lovaniensa Periodica 12 (1981): 215–24.
    • Van Rompay, L. “Išoʿ bar Nun and Išoʿdad of Merv: New Data for the Study of the Interdependence of their Exegetical Works.” Orientalia Lovaniensa Periodica, 1977, 229–49.
    • Van Rompay, L. “Les manuscrits éthiopiens des ‘Miracles de Jésus’ (comprenant l’Évangile apocryphe de Jean et l’Évangile de l’Enfance selon Thomas l’Israélite).” Analecta Bollandiana 93 (1975): 133–46.
    • Van Rompay, L. “The Rendering of πρόσωπον λαμβάνειν and Related Expressions in the Early Oriental Versions of the New Testament.” Orientalia Lovaniensia Periodica 6/7 (1975): 569–75.
    • Van Rompay, L. “A hitherto Unknown Nestorian Commentary on Genesis and Exodus 1 – 9,32 in the Syriac Manuscript (olim) Diyarbakir 22.” Orientalia Lovaniensia Periodica 5 (1974): 53–78.
    • Van Rompay, L. “Le Commentaire sur Gen. – Ex. 9,32 du manuscrit (olim) Diyarbakir 22 et l’exégèse syrienne orientale du 8ème au 10ème siècle.” Orientalia Christiana Analecta 205 (n.d.): 113–23.

  • Book Sections

    • Van Rompay, L. “Early Christianity in the Near East.” In A Companion to the Hellenistic and Roman Near East, 435–44, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119037354.ch38.
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    • Van Rompay, Lucas, Sam Miglarese, and David Morgan. “The Long Shadow of Vatican II Living Faith and Negotiating Authority since the Second Vatican Council EPILOGUE.” In LONG SHADOW OF VATICAN II: LIVING FAITH AND NEGOTIATING AUTHORITY SINCE THE SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL, 128–37, 2015.
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    • Rompay, L Van. “Dayr al-Suryan: l’esperienza siro-ortodossa in Egitto.” In L’eredità Religiosa e Culturale Dei Siri-Occidentali Tra VI et IX Secolo. Atti Del 6° Incontro Sull’Oriente Cristiano Di Tradizione Siriaca. Milano, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, 25 Maggio 2007, edited by E. Vergani and S. Chialà, 73–89, 2012.
    • Rompay, L Van, and G. A. Kiraz. “Jerusalem.” In Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, 227a-229a, 2011.
    • Rompay, L Van, and S. Burleson. “List of Patriarchs in the Main Syriac Churches in the Middle East.” In Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, 473–83, 2011.
    • Rompay, L Van. “108 entries.” In Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage. Gorgias Press, 2011.
    • Rompay, L Van. “Humanity’s Sin in Paradise. Ephrem, Jacob of Serugh, and Narsai in Conversation.” In Jacob of Serugh and His Times. Studies in Sixth-Century Syriac Christianity, edited by G. Kiraz, 199–217. Gorgias Press, 2010.
    • Rompay, L Van. “Syriac and Related Scripts.” In Journey of Writing in Egypt, edited by Kh Azab and A. Masour, 150–63. Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Cairo (Egypt), 2009.
    • Carter, J. K. “Epilogue.” Oxford University Press, 2008. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195152791.003.0016.
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    • Rompay, L Van. “Jacob of Edessa and the Sixth-Century Syriac Translator of Severus of Antioch’s Cathedral Homilies.” In Jacob of Edessa and the Syriac Culture of His Day, edited by B ter Haar Romeny, 189–204. Brill, 2008.
    • Rompay, L Van. “The East (3): Syria and Mesopotamia.” In The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies, edited by S. A. Harvey and D. G. Hunter, 364–86. Oxford University Press, 2008.
    • Rompay, L Van. “A Precious Gift to Deir al-Surian (AD 1211): Ms. Vat. Syr. 13.” In Malphono W-Rabo d-Malphone. Studies in Honor of Sebastian P. Brock, edited by G. A. Kiraz, 735–50. Gorgias Press, 2008.
    • Van Rompay, L. “Oh that I had Wings like a Dove! Some Remarks on Exclamatory Clauses in Syriac.” In Studies in Semitic and General Linguistics in Honor of Gideon Goldenberg, edited by Tali Bar and Eran Cohen. Ugarit-Verlag, 2007.
    • Van Rompay, L. “No Evil Word about Her. The Two Syriac Versions of the Book of Judith.” In Text, Translation, and Tradition, edited by Konrad Dirk Jenner, W Th van Peursen, and RB ter Haar Romeny, 205–30. Brill Academic Pub, 2006.
    • Van Rompay, L. “Between the School and the Monk’s Cell: The Syriac Old Testament Commentary Tradition.” In The Peshitta: Its Use in Literature and Liturgy. Papers Read at the Third Peshitta Symposium., edited by B. ter Haar Romeny, 15:27–51. Leiden: Brill, 2006.
    • Van Rompay, L. “Les versions syriaques.” In Sévère d’Antioche. Fragments Grecs Tirés Des Chaînes Sur Les Derniers Livres de l’Octateuque et Sur Les Règnes, 14:213–14. Louvain: Peeters, 2006.
    • Van Rompay, L. “The Maronites.” In The Oxford History of Christian Worship, edited by Geoffrey Wainwright and Karen B Westerfield Tucker, 170–74. Oxford University Press, 2006.
    • Van Rompay, L. “Society and Community in the Christian East.” In The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Justinian, edited by Michael Maas, 239–66. Cambridge University Press, 2005.
    • Van Rompay, L. “The Syriac Texts of the Flabellum.” In The Thirteenth-Century Flabellum from Deir Al-Surian in the Musée Royal de Mariemont. Belgium: Morlanwelz, 2004.
    • Van Rompay, L. “Les inscriptions syriaques du Couvent des Syriens (Wadi al-Natrun, Égypte).” In Les Inscriptions Syriaques, edited by Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet, Muriel Debié, and Alain Desreumaux, 55–73. Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 2004.
    • Van Rompay, L. “New Foreword.” In An Album of Dated Syriac Manuscripts, edited by William Hatch. Gorgias Press LLC, 2002.
    • Van Rompay, L. “Development of Biblical Interpretation in the Syrian Churches of the Middle Ages.” In Hebrew Bible, Old Testament : The History of Its Interpretation. Vol. 1, From the Beginnings to the Middle Ages (until 1300) : Pt. 2. The Middle Ages, edited by Magne Saebo, 559–77. Ruprecht Gmbh & Company, 2000.
    • Van Rompay, L. “Les versions syriaques.” In La Chaîne Sur l’Exode, 111–208. Peeters Publishers, 2000.
    • Van Rompay, L. “Jacob of Edessa and the Early History of Edessa.” In After Bardaisan, edited by G. J. Reinink and Alexander Cornelis Klugkist, 269–85. Peeters Publishers, 1999.
    • Van Rompay, L. “Antiochene Biblical Interpretation: Greek and Syriac.” In The Book of Genesis in Jewish and Oriental Christian Interpretation, edited by Judith Frishman and Lucas van Rompay, 103–23. Peeters Publishers, 1997.
    • Van Rompay, L. “Impetuous Martyrs? The Situation of the Persian Christians in the Last Years of Yazdgard I (419-420).” In Martyrium in Multidisciplinary Perspective, edited by Peter van Deun, 419–20. Peeters Pub & Booksellers, 1995.
    • Van Rompay, L. “Christenen in het Nabije Oosten.” In De Arabische Wereld En Haar Minderheden, edited by H. Beck and F. Ros, 17–37. Katwijk, 1985.
    • Van Rompay, L. “Proclus of Constantinople’s «Tomus ad Armenios» in the Post-Chalcedonian Tradition.” In After Chalcedon, edited by Carl Laga and Joseph A. Munitiz, 425–49. Peeters Pub & Booksellers, 1985.
    • Van Rompay, L. “The Martyrs of Najran: Some Remarks on the Nature of the Sources.” In Studia P. Naster Oblata, II. Orientalia Antiqua, edited by J. Quagebeur, 301–9. Peeters, 1982.
    • Van Rompay, L. “Bardaisan and Mani in Philoxenus of Mabbog’s Mēmrē against Habbib.” In Syriac Polemics. Studies in Honour of Gerrit Jan Reinink, edited by W. J. Bekkum, J. W. Drijvers, and A. C. Klugkist, 77–90. Peeters, n.d.

  • Other Articles

    • Brock, S., A. M. Butts, G. A. Kiraz, and L Van Rompay. “Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage.” Gorgias Press, 2011.
• Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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  Presentations & Appearances

  • Aphrahat, ‘A Student of the Holy Scriptures’. The Reception of his Biblical Interpretation in Later Syriac Tradition.. December 1, 2012  2012
  • Eusebius of Emesa (4th century) and his Commentary on Genesis: Between Greek and Syriac; between Judaism and Christianity.. December 1, 2012  2012
  • Teacher of Dogma (Rabban d-dogma) as an Academic Title in the Syriac Orthodox Church in the 8th-9th Century.. December 1, 2012  2012
  • Eusebius of Emesa's Commentary on Genesis: Between the Greek and the Syriac World. March 30, 2009  2009
  • The Duke University Collection of Ethiopic Manuscripts. November 24, 2008  2008
  • Fourth-Century Syriac Christianity: Between Jews and Marcionites. May 17, 2008  2008
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  Service to the Profession

  • Several papers refereed for Le Museon (Louvain-la-Neuve), Journal of Early Christian Studies, and Hugoye.. 2008  2008

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