Aaron Butts

Aaron Michael Butts (PhD University of Chicago) is associate professor (with tenure) in the Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literatures at The Catholic University of America as well as director of its Institute of Christian Oriental Research (ICOR). His research focuses on the history, languages, and literature of Christianity in the Near East, including especially Arabic, Ethiopic, and Syriac Christianity. He is author of Language Change in the Wake of Empire: Syriac in its Greco-Roman Context (2016) and (with Simcha Gross) The History of the ‘Slave of Christ’: From Jewish Child to Christian Martyr (2016). He has also published over 50 papers, edited or co-edited four volumes of essays, as well as co-edited the reference work Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (2011).

For more information (including pdfs of many of his papers), see the following links:

https://semitics.catholic.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty-profiles/butts-aaron-m/index.html

https://cua.academia.edu/AaronButts