Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity The Center for the Study of Christianity has compiled centuries of academic research on Syriac Christianity into a bibliography accessible to scholars in Syriac studies, early and medieval Christianity, rabbinic Judaism, Islam, comparative religion and Semitic linguistics. Truncate as follows: Ephr (returns Ephräm, Ephraem, Ephrem, etc.), Jon (returns Jona, Jonah, Jonas, and Jonás, but not, of course, Giona), Nin (returns Nineveh, Ninive, etc.).