Nicholas Sims-Williams

Nicholas Sims-Williams is a scholar of Iranian languages and Central Asian literature, and an emeritus professor at SOAS, University of London. He studied a Sogdian manuscript of Christian texts translated from SyriacSyriacA literary form of Aramaic, with an extensive Christian heritage and earlier non-Christian attestations.Glossary · Click to read the explanation and has published on Sogdian and Bactrian. His Encyclopaedia Iranica entry on the Sleepers of Ephesus describes a Sogdian version with eight people. This witness shows why the usual name Seven Sleepers does not describe the headcount in every account. ^{[1] [2]}