**M. Albert, “Langue et litterature syriaques”, in Christianismes orientaux: Introduction à l'étude des langues et des littératures, Paris: Éditions du Cerf, 1993, pp. 297–375.
There are important works by Middle Eastern scholars:
A. Barsoum (in Arabic and Syriac; for English translation, see above); A. Abouna (Arabic), and P. Sarmas (Modern Syriac): these are used by Macuch. Much basic information is still to be found in J.S. Assemani, Bibliotheca Orientalis (1719–1728; 3 vols; reprinted, 1975).1
Useful and often substantial articles on some main Syriac writers can be found especially in the Dictionnaire de spiritualité2 and the Theologische Realenzyklopädie.3 Many briefer ones in Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche (2nd ed.).
Historical Background
No single work available, but the following are important:
Festschriften for the following scholars contain many articles on Syriac studies: G. Khouri-Sarkis (1969); F. Graffin (1974); A. Vööbus (1977); W. Strothmann (1978); A. van Roey (1985); A. Guillaumont (1988); W. Hage (1995); J-M. Fiey (1996); S.P. Brock (1996); H.J.W. Drijvers (1999).
A. de Halleux, “Vingt ans d'étude critique des églises syriaques”, in The Christian East, its institutions & its thought: a critical reflection; papers of the International Scholary [sic] Congress for the 75th Anniversary of the Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome, 30 May-5 June 1993, R. F. Taft, Ed. Rome: Oriental Institute, 1996, pp. 145–179.
Text Series
Patrologia Syriaca (PS; 3 vols), with Latin translation.
W. Cureton, “The Epistle of Mara, son of Serapion”, in Spicilegium syriacum, containing remains of Bardesan, Meliton, Ambrose, and Mara bar Serapion, London: Rivingtons, 1855, pp. 70-76.. [Syriac and English translation]
T. Baarda, “The Sentences of the Syriac Menander (Third Century A.D.)”, in The Old Testament pseudepigrapha. 2, Expansions of the "Old Testament" and legends, wisdom and philosophical literature, prayers, psalms, and odes, fragments of lost Judeo-Hellenistic works, 2nd ed., vol. 2, 2 vol., J. H. Charlesworth, Ed. Hendrickson: Peabody, 2009, pp. 583–606.
S. P. Brock, “The Syriac Commentary Tradition”, in Glosses and commentaries on Aristotelian logical texts : the Syriac, Arabic and medieval Latin traditions, C. S. F. Burnett, Ed. London: Warburg Institute, University of London, 1993, pp. 3-18.