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Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Colleagues at Exeter have asked me to circulate their petition as widely as possible: www.change.org/p/stop-redun...

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Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

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Ancient Jew Review @ancientjewreview.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

AJR is honored to host a review panel of Christine Luckritz Marquis’s book, Death of the Desert: Monastic Memory and the Loss of Egypt's Golden Age (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022). We begin with an essay from Ciara Mulcahy

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Monastic Memory and the Loss of Egypt’s Golden Age — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW

Luckritz Marquis masterfully weaves together multi-layered narratives while simultaneously engaging with the lenses of memory, nostalgia, and race.

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

My tiny thread yesterday is now a whole op-ed! A quick read, connecting Pope Leo's apology for colonialism and slavery to his warnings about AI — it's all related. Working with editor @mpgphd.bsky.social was an absolutely pleasure!

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Maria S. Thomas @dekayra.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

one of my favorite people wrote one of my favorite recent reads. can't recommend it enough!

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The CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

GenAut research trip | Our colleague Maria S. Thomas @dekayra.bsky.social at Deir al-Surian for manuscript work. Here are some photos!

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Isis Naucratis @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Cairo peeps: I'm giving a talk for the CEDEJ and Institut français d’archéologie orientale - Ifao on May 10th. Join us if you can! www.ifao.egnet.net/recherche/ma...

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Andy Hilkens @andyhilkens.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

This wonderful conference in Rome starts Wednesday! Looking forward to present some glimpses of my favourite biblical manuscript(s)!

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Markus Oehler @markusoehler.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

The time has finally come: Here is the first volume of Julien Ogereau’s “Epigraphical Commentary on the New Testament,” focusing on 1 Thessalonians: available via Open Access and packed with new insights: www.mohrsiebeck.com/buch/1-thess... #epigraphy #1Thessalonians

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1 Thessalonians

In diesem epigraphischen Kommentar untersucht Julien M. Ogereau eine Vielzahl griechischer Inschriften, die neue sprachliche und kulturelle Einblicke in den 1. Thessalonicherbrief bieten. Er schlägt n...

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Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

#NewPublication #OpenAccess #Syriac #ChristianEast www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...

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The CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

GenAut research trip | A few snapshots from these weeks' manuscript work in Oxford and Cambridge.

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Sarah Parkhouse @sarahparkhouse.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

We've launched the website for our 'Coptic in Manchester: Connecting Manuscripts and Communities' UKRI-funded project ('26–28) with @thejohnrylands.bsky.social ! Please share! sites.google.com/view/coptici...

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Coptic in Manchester

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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Reminder! We hope that you can join us tomorrow evening for Prof. Drpić's talk ! April 6 • 🕔 5:15 PM EST Attend either in-person on the sixth floor of Penn's Van Pelt Library, or remotely on Zoom. (See pennmaterialtexts.org for details.)

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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Proofs day for A Workshop of Eloquence: A Collection of Gazan Literature from Late Antiquity! I'm grateful to be working with DAK University Press in Bethlehem and a Gazan Arabic translator to offer an introduction and selection of translated texts by, from, and about late ancient Gaza.

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The CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

GenAut recording | Philipp Pilhofer, "The Circle of Barnabas: Generative Authority in Cypriot Hagiography" The online seminar: genaut.univie.ac.at?page_id=671

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GenAut | Philipp Pilhofer "The Circle of Barnabas. Generative Authority in Cypriot Hagiography"

YouTube video by The GenAut Project

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The CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Tomorrow ! GenAut online seminar | Philipp Pilhofer (Vienna), "The Circle of Barnabas. Generative Authority in Cypriot Hagiography" Tuesday, 24 March (10 AM CET). See you there! •Followers of the Apostles in Cultic Contexts• genaut.univie.ac.at

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De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

New release 📚 The Martyrdom of Polycarp: Translation, Introduction, and Commentary 📜 N. Clayton Croy's magnum opus provides a detailed introduction and a section-by-section commentary on the earliest, full-length narrative of an early Christian martyrdom. Read it here: brill.com/display/ti...

Book cover.
The Martyrdom of Polycarp: Translation, Introduction, and Commentary.
By N. Clayton Croy.
Series: Texts and Editions for New Testament Study, Volume 20.
Brill. Published 2026.

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Siobhán Jolley @siobhanjolley.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Rounding off this busy week, I’m looking forward to presenting this year’s Peake Lecture with my friend and colleague Samuel Hildebrandt tomorrow on our current research: ‘From Miriam to the Magdalene: Women Witnesses in the Bible and Beyond’ (no points for guessing which bit I’ll be covering!).

From Miriam to the Magdalene:
Women Witnesses in the Bible and Beyond Mary Magdalene
Siobhán Jolley
siobhan.jolley@manchester.ac.uk|@siobhanjolley.bsky.social

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TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar @tetraseminar.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Please join us on Thursday 26 March at 10 am CET for the next TeTra talk by Julia Schwarzer (KU Leuven): "A Mischievous Manuscript or Infidel Rule Reimagined: Julian in Coptic Sources"

St. Mercurius kills Julian, BM Ms. Or. 6801, f. 1v, 996–1004 CE. Image courtesy of the British Library

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(Mar)Chella Ward @luxmea.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

This has been out a little while but it only just landed on my doormat - containing a little chapter I wrote on my OGs (Deleuze and Guattari). Congratulations to the editors! 📘

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Dan Batovici @danbatovici.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

This is great news for late antiquity: top journal turns full Open Access. Way to go, Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum! More info here: www.degruyterbrill.com/.../10.../za...

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Lewis Read @lewread.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

New article about Chalcedonian Armenians in eleventh-century Byzantium! Open Access: austriaca.at?arp=0x00416251

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SBL Press @sblpress.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Check out "Miss Piggy and the Pretty Woman of Proverbs 11:22: Beauty, Animality, and Gender" by Anne Létourneau in Ask the Animals: Developing a Biblical Animal Hermeneutic edited by Arthur W. Walker-Jones, Suzanna R. Millar. buff.ly/USlwpnC #WomensHistorySBL26

Miss Piggy and the Pretty Woman of Proverbs 11:22: Beauty, Animality, and Gender

Keeping the connection alive between the adorned pig and the pretty woman brings forth many fruitful interpretative possibilities. I offer to go beyond the tendency to limit the meaning of a proverb to its parallelistic structure in order to consider appositional tensions as well as reversible metaphors at play.
—Anne Létourneau

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

🎉The first 3 books have now published in The Islamicate East series, edited by @arezouazad.bsky.social, Hugh Kennedy and Teresa Bernheimer🎉 @invisibleeast.bsky.social Find out more at edinburghuniversitypress.com/series-the-i...

3 book covers: The Warehouse of Bamiyan, Persian World Histories in the Mongol Era and The Rise and Fall of the Barmakids

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Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

So, here's the article I have out as of today and it's #OpenAccess. It deals with one of the earliest Christian Arabic scribal workshops in the Sinai monastery, where many of the mss produced there have been preserved to this day. In this 🧵 I do a quick rundown of the most important findings. 1/n

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Building a Christian Arabic Library at Mount Sinai: The Scribe Thomas of Fusṭāṭ and the Manuscripts of His Workshop

This contribution focuses on the monk-scribe Thomas of Fusṭāṭ (Tūmā l-Fusṭāṭī) who was active at St Catherine’s Monastery at Mount Sinai at the turn from the ninth to the tenth century CE. He belonged...

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Medieval Institute Publications @mip-medpub.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Since it's still Library Lovers' Month, you might as well expand your collection by learning about other collections!

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Dan Batovici @danbatovici.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

If you're in Vienna next week, this is a very interesting conference.

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Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

#NewPublication #OpenAccess #ChristianEast #ManuscriptStudies #BookHistory #ArabicBible “Monastic Literature in Early Islamic Palestine and Sinai: Manuscripts, Scribes, Translators, Authors, and Later Readers”, COMSt Bulletin Special Issue, ed. by Adrian C. Pirtea

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Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin 11, 2025

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The CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

GenAut talks | Maria S. Thomas, "Publishing in a Twelfth-Century Syriac Monastery: Manuscript Production, Authority, and Scribal Practice at the Monastery of Mary Magdalene in Jerusalem," Thursday 26 February, online. @dekayra.bsky.social.

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Rhiannon Garth Jones @rhigarthjones.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I see "Western Civilisation" is back in the discourse and I'd love to do a thread all about it but... I have no time this week so maybe read my book instead? All good bookshops etc... uk.bookshop.org/p/books/all-...

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All Roads Lead to Rome: Why we think of the Roman Empire daily

Why we think of the Roman Empire daily

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Andy Hilkens @andyhilkens.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Conference Announcement! Sanctity and Ritual Remembrance: Comparative Approaches to Christian Liturgical Memory from Medieval Iberia to Central Asia ÖAW, Vienna | 5–6 March 2026

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The CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Congrats to our collaborators @worldlyscribe.bsky.social, Giorgia Nicosia, @madalinatoca.bsky.social, and Adrian Pirtea for their articles in the newly published thematic issue of the Journal of Eastern Christian Studies (co-edited by Marion). Several in Open Access! brill.com/view/journal...

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The CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

The first talk of this years online seminar: Jakob Engberg, "The Care for the Remains of Polycarp in the Martyrdom of Polycarp in its Second Century Context." Tuesday, 17 February (10 AM CET) •Followers of the Apostles in Cultic Contexts• genaut.univie.ac.at

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Read Nabataean!

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TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar @tetraseminar.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Next week we are hosting another paper, this time by Nicolas Atas (KU Leuven) on Syriac lexica! Tune in on Thursday 5 Feb at our regular time of 10 AM CET. As always, don't forget to register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social if you're not yet on our mailing list!

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The CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

We're thrilled to share with you the programme for the 2026 online seminar of the project! The series is curated by our colleague Maria S. Thomas (@dekayra.bsky.social). All welcome! Let us know if you'd like to add you to the email list. genaut.univie.ac.at/?page_id=671

The programme of the 2026 GenAut online seminar, with the general theme "The Followers of the Apostles in Cultic Contexts." It can be found online at https://genaut.univie.ac.at/?page_id=671.

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Dan Batovici @danbatovici.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

We have now a bsky page for the Vienna project, which just announced the 2026 online seminar. Check it out, it's a nice series of talks – organised by @dekayra.bsky.social.

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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 27/12/2025

My (free) website for learning to read from Greek manuscripts is available. Still some tweaks to be made but it’s ready with 12 lessons, tips and hints, downloadable reports if you use it for a class, and links to lots of resources. Please share and give feedback! xeirographa.com

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Xeirographa

A guided learning platform for reading Greek manuscripts with interactive transcription exercises.

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

today’s the day!!

Promo graphic for my book _Smoke & Mirrors: Discourses of Magic in Early Petrine Traditions_. The graphic features a discount code for 30% off if you purchase directly from Oxford University Press. That code is AUFLY30 (case sensitive).

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

it’s officially book promo time! so, hey, i wrote this book; it comes out in a week! would you mind signal boosting and asking your library to buy it? if you’d like a copy, the code AUFLY30 will get you 30%off.

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Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture @mjcbac.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Attend: A Short History of the Entanglement between Syriac and Armenian Christianities, lecture by Andy Hilkens, Princeton University, November 13, 2025, 4:30–6:00 PM maryjahariscenter.org/blog/a-short...

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A Short History of the Entanglement between Syriac and Armenian Christianities | Mary Jaharis Center

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Dan Batovici @danbatovici.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Later today (at 1pm CET): Chance Bonar (Virginia), "Onesimus: Apostle and Martyr in Eastern Mediterranean Literature"

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/10/2025

Since we mourn for the dead and fight like hell for the living, I’m bumping my thread about how from my perspective as a former Junior Olympic level track runner, this “fairness” transphobia is fucking bullshit blacksky.community/profile/did:...

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Penn Religious Studies @upennrels.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

A reminder that we have no colloquium event this week! However, our affiliated program, the Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins, is holding a book event on Zoom with Prof. Ellen Muehlberger (Michigan) from 6:30–8:00 pm on Thursday, Oct. 30. Details here: rels.sas.upenn.edu/events/2025/...

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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

🗣️ PLEASE SHARE 🗣️ I'm writing an intro & sourcebook on late ancient Gazan literature for Dar al-Kalima University Press. The press and I plan to produce an Arabic translation to make Gazan literature more accessible to Palestinians. Help me compensate the Gazan translator! spot.fund/dn8t744sc

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Click here to support Chance Bonar's story *AncientGazanLitTranslation

*spotfund is the easiest place to create beautiful and free online fundraisers. It takes just minutes to start raising money today.

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The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

In today's post, Ephrem Aboud Ishac writes about using #AI to visually reconstruct and complete partially damaged or fragmented #Syriac manuscripts, exploring its benefits and the ethical obligations involved. 🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2025/10/21/s...

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Syriac AI Manuscripts and Fragments: Reimagining Digitally the Damaged Past

The field of Syriac Digital Humanities continues to advance rapidly, moving from basic text recognition (as discussed in my previous posts on OCR/HTR, particularly our launch of the first public Sy…

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