Marie-Thérèse ELIA

Chargé de Cours - Vacataire - Dr

(+961) 1 421 000 ext marie-therese.elia@usj.edu.lb

I am a Basilian Chouerite nun, an assistant professor in the Department of Religious Oriental Studies at USEK since 2020, and a lecturer in the Faculty of Theology at USJ. My research focuses on Syriac patristics, with a particular emphasis on Christology, especially Miaphysitism in northern Syria and Mesopotamia during the time of the Council of Chalcedon. I am also interested in texts from controversies between Syriac Christians and Muslims in the early centuries of Islam. I am a cataloger of Maronite manuscripts for the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library (HMML) and contribute to the preparation of the catalog of the Lebanese Maronite Order manuscript collection at the USEK library. Additionally, I am a columnist for the journal Proche-Orient Chrétien and a member of the editorial committee for the project Debates on the Union between Rome and the Rūm (DURR), prepared by the Center for Documentation and Christian Arab Research (CEDRAC). I am also a member of the University Pastoral Secretariat in Lebanon and provide spiritual accompaniment to the pastoral music band.