Status Active Distribution Worldwide | Country of origin United States Founded 2001 | |
Nonfiction topics Syriac studiesAncient Near EastEastern ChristianityArabic and Islamic studiesJewish studiesQumranUgaritic Imprints Tigris, Euphrates, Harp of the Gazelle Headquarters location Piscataway, New Jersey, United States | ||
Gorgias Press is an academic publisher of books and journals covering a range of religious and language studies that include Syriac language, Eastern Christianity, Ancient Near East, Arabic and Islam, Early Christianity, Judaism, and more. Gorgias Press was founded in 2001 by George Kiraz, and is based in Piscataway, New Jersey. Authors include Sebastian Brock, Clinton Bennett, David C. Parker, Andrei Orlov, Iain Torrance, Philip Khuri Hitti, George Percy Badger, Ignatius Zakka I Iwas, Ignatius Afram I Barsoum, Ignatius Elias III, Carl Brockelmann, Aziz Suryal Atiya, and William Hatch.
The press publishes new books, but also reprints academic books and rare out of print books, in addition to several peer-reviewed academic journals. In 2010, they published three volumes of peer-reviewed articles as part of a series on Foundations for Syriac Lexicography in association with the International Syriac Language Project.