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De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What's been cooking behind the scenes? 🍳 We're thrilled to announce a brand new book series: "Intellectual History of #NewTestament Scholarship" edited by Garrick Allen and Jan Krans. 🧵 🔗 brill.com/page/forth... 1/3

Series cover of "Intellectual History of New Testament Scholarship" edited by Garrick Allen and Jan Krans, Brill.

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Greg Given @greggiven.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Out today in open access: /Philology in Europe Before and After 1800: Change and Continuity/, ed. Laura Loporcaro and Paul Michael Kurtz. (To which I was honored to add an afterword!)

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Philology in Europe before and after 1800 | Change and Continuity | La

Philology in Europe before and after 1800 investigates a period often regarded as a watershed moment in the history of the humanities. Since the nineteenth

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Joey McCollum @joeymccollum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

An excellent addition to the team (though we'll miss her back in Leuven)!

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The CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Meet the CLAIM team: Martina Vercesi. Welcome to Vienna, Martina! The ERC CoG CLAIM Project "Secondary Pseudepigraphy" claim.univie.ac.at

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Ev. Theol. Uni Wien @etf-univienna.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Wir laden Sie sehr herzlich zur Gastvorlesung "Exodus 32-34 as a Theological Battleground" von Prof. Dr. Petr Sláma (Prag) ein. Die Vorlesung findet am Mittwoch, den 30.9., um 18:00 Uhr im HS 3 in der Schenkenstraße 8-10 statt. Wir freuen uns auf Ihr Kommen! #gastvorlesung #univienna

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TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar @tetraseminar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Next Thu 1 Oct at 10 AM CET, Giulia Paoletti (Ghent University) on •Writing Texts, Shaping Readers: The Making of Byzantine Paraenetic Literature• If you are not yet on our mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social ! Image: Athos, Panteleimon 1063, fol. 11v (16th c.)

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Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Want to see this and other extraordinary books in our collections? There's still a week left to apply for our Nottebohm fellowship. All info here: museumplantinmoretus.be/en/nottebohm... 2/

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Nottebohm Fellowship for Book Historical Research

The Plantin-Moretus Museum and the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library (Antwerp) are pleased to launch a new call for applications for our fellowship programme.

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Sophia Dege-Müller @sophiademue.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I am excited to share my new publication "The Life of Susanna in the Light of Beta Israel Manuscript Tradition" which just appeared in this cool new book! www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/book/inte...

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The CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

GenAut recording | Kelli Bryant Gibson "Addai, Protonike, and the Veneration of the Cross." Enjoy! The programme: genaut.univie.ac.at?page_id=671 www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU-N...

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GenAut | Kelli Bryant Gibson "Addai, Protonike, and the Veneration of the Cross"

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Jamey Walters @jedwardwalters.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Highly recommend this new article by David Taylor about Jessie Payne Smith (Margoliouth) and her work as both a Syriac scholar and a suffragist: www.new.ox.ac.uk/mrs-margolio...

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Mrs Margoliouth: Jessie Payne Smith, Syriac Scholar and Suffragist | New College

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Dan Batovici @danbatovici.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm pretty chuffed by this collab with Giorgia Nicosia!

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Andy Hilkens @andyhilkens.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Tomorrow at 4PM CET!

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The CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Meet our team! Starting today: Chloé Agar. Welcome aboard, Chloé! The GenAut Project: "The Followers of the Apostles as Literary Characters" genaut.univie.ac.at/ genaut.univie.ac.at/?page_id=37

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The CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Tomorrow: GenAut seminar | Kelli Gibson, "Addai, Protonike, and the Veneration of the Cross" 5 Sep at 4 pm CET. See you there! genaut.univie.ac.at/?page_id=671

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TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar @tetraseminar.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Congratulations to our TeTra colleague Giorgia Nicosia for publishing her PhD work as a book — in Open Access, so have a feel! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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Marion Pragt @worldlyscribe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Talk by Maria Doerfler on Syriac funerary hymns on Thursday 17 September (4 pm CET). All welcome!

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Gorgias Press @gorgiaspress.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

CFP: Prologues in Middle Eastern Manuscript Traditions, Salzburg, April 15-16, convened by Sabine Schmidtke, Yury Arzhanov, and George Kiraz. This will be the 9th MEMaT Workshop from the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. #Workshop #middleeast #ManuscriptMonday

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Mateusz Kusio @mateuszkusio.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Colleagues at the Nicolaus Copernicus University (Toruń, PL) have an exciting opening for a 36-month long postdoc in Greek literature within a new project on book circulation in late antiquity. See www.umk.pl/en/jobs/?tas... for details. Note the deadline: 02 Oct 26.

Screenshot of a job posting referenced in the post. The content is as follows: Offer No.: 4973

Institution: Faculty of Humanities

City: Toruń

Position: assistant professor (adjunkt) - research staff

Discipline: The Field of the Humanities - Literary Studies, The Field of the Humanities - History

Posted: 2026-09-03

Expires: 2026-10-02

Keywords: Ancient Greek literature, Byzantine literature, ancient history, Ancient Greek language, digital humanities, post-doc project NCN

Description (field, expectations, comments): The competition is open to persons who meet the conditions set out in Article 113 of the Act of 20 July 2018 - Law on higher education and science (Journal of Laws of 2018, item 1668) and the following qualification criteria:
The job offer concerns a full-time Postdoctoral Researcher position within an NCN-funded research project “Networks of Book Circulation and the Making of Reading Communities in Late Antiquity” led by Dr Marta Szada (m.szada@umk.pl).

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TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar @tetraseminar.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Next Thursday 17 September, 4PM CET (!) Maria Doerfler (Yale University) •The Bible at the Burial: Scripture's Role in Syriac Christian Funerary Hymnography• If you're not yet on our mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social

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TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar @tetraseminar.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

We are excited to host Jeroen Verrijssen (Ghent University) next Thu 10 Sept, at 10 AM CET. The topic of his paper is •Towards a Typology of Onomastic Transmission: The Names of the Watchers in 1 Enoch and Its Versions• If you are interested in attending, pls register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social

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Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

#NewPublication 👀 #OpenAccess #EthiopicBible #Patristics @sophiademue.bsky.social "The Ethiopic Version of the Introduction to the Psalms by Eusebius of Caesarea (CAe 6719): Preliminary Remarks on its Manuscript Transmission and Vorlage"

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Jamey Walters @jedwardwalters.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

We have a release date! According to the publisher, our volume on late antique Syriac homilies will be released on Sept. 23. The website doesn't have a pre-order option, so mark your calendars! @philipforness.bsky.social @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

Cover image for a book: at the top, with white letters against solid purple background, the title is: "A Guide to Preaching and the Homiletic Genre in Late Antique Syriac Literature". Then in a different font color against the purple background: Edited by Philip Michael Forness and James Edward Walters. There is an image from a manuscript at the bottom depicting two well known preachers from the Syriac tradition: Ephrem and Jacob.

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TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar @tetraseminar.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Congrats to @sophiademue.bsky.social for winning an ERC StG! "Beta Esrael Heritage and Texts - a multilayered approach to the literary and manuscript tradition of the Ethiopian Jews" For a preview, you may wish to check out her TeTra talk – incidentaly one of the most viewed talks on our channel!

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TeTra | Sophia Dege-Müller "Texts from Ethiopian Christians to Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jewish)"

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Lydia Bremer-McCollum @lcbmphd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The new semester is starting (or well under way). If you find yourself wishing you had more Coptic reading in your life, consider joining my online reading group! Meets Mondays @ 10:00am ET (Atlanta, GA time) [Zoom] DM me for more info!

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Jamey Walters @jedwardwalters.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I’m so glad that this is now available in paperback! Hopefully it will be useful and now even more affordable for people to assign it as a textbook.

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Siobhán Jolley @siobhanjolley.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

While I was on leave, a lovely review of my first book by Caroline Vander Stichele was published in RBL. I’m very grateful to Caroline for her careful and supportive reading, not least because it would have put a real dampener on today’s paperback release if she hated it!

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Philip Forness @philipforness.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

On behalf of the entire editorial board of the Journal of Eastern Christian Studies, I am happy to announce a new and timely special issue in open access: "Orthodox Reforms in the 'Long Seventeenth Century': The Kyivan Model," edited by Liliya Berezhnaya. Enjoy reading! brill.com/view/journal...

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TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar @tetraseminar.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Tomorrow! Don't forget to register!

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Cosmopolitan Byzantium: People, Ideas, and Interactions. A ›Festschrift‹ for Claudia Rapp / Maria-Lucia Goiana, et al. eds. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... @dgb-history.bsky.social #openaccess

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NASSCAL @nasscal.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The deadline for nominations for NASSCAL's Sisters of Sinai Prize for outstanding scholarship in Christian apocrypha is fast approaching. Nominations close at midnight Sept. 1. For more information, visit www.nasscal.com/the-sisters-...

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The Sisters of Sinai Prize

The Sisters of Sinai Prize for outstanding scholarship in Christian apocrypha is named in honor of Agnes Smith Lewis and Margaret Dunlop Gibson, sisters who are responsible for a number of signific…

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Vevian Zaki @vevianzaki.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Cats might be the last thing a visitor to a monastery would think of or expect to see. And yet, the furry residents of Sinai have made themselves part of the monastery scene. If you are a cat lover, this is for you: English (vevianzaki.com/2026/08/13/c...) Arabic (vevianzaki.com/2026/08/13/%...)

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Cats on Mount Sinai

Stories of the Monastery’s Furry Residents Years ago, when I visited St. Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai, among many impressive things about this monastery, the cats who lived their caught my attent…

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Andy Hilkens @andyhilkens.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Next week!

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TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar @tetraseminar.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Next Thu 20 August 10 AM CET Julie Dainville (Brussels) will deliver the paper •In the Rhetor's classroom: Rhetorical tradition and the papyri• If you are not yet on our mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social to receive the Zoom link Image: P. Oxy . 4855 col. 3

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Sabrina Inowlocki @sabrinainowlocki.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Turns out the Martyrs of Palestine and Pamphilus of Caesarea are chick-magnets. I just found out that Liz Penland, Erica Carotenuto and myself have a predecessor. The Pamphilos entry in Pauly-Wissowa by "E. Hoffmann" is not by an Ernst but an Eva.

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Critical Texts @criticaltexts.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Over 18% of all known Greek New Testament manuscripts is on Mount Athos—and there is still much more to discover there. A look at this remarkable collection and how much our knowledge of it has changed in recent years. criticaltexts.com/greek-new-te...

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Greek New Testament Manuscripts on Mount Athos

For more than a millennium, daily prayers have been offered on Mount Athos. Described as “the spiritual heart of Orthodoxy,” this secluded peninsula in northeastern Greece is regarded by many as on…

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Miriam De Cock @miriamjane5.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Check out my @dublincityuni.bsky.social / @tcddublin.bsky.social colleague Alyson Staunton's new book *Female Embodiment and the Ascetic Impulse: In Search of a Theology of the Female Body* (Peter Lang). Congratulations, my friend! www.peterlang.com/document/151...

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Peter Lang Verlag - Female Embodiment and the Ascetic Impulse

Across centuries, the female body has been shaped by theological and cultural narratives that cast it as both divine creation and site of moral and ...

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