Reposted by jesseDon Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 29/09/2026#Sculptural detail, tombstone, #cemetery, from #LaBic, #Quebec 215533
Reposted by jesseJastrow bot @jastrow-bot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026⁂°⁂ דָּאִיב languor, v. דְּאִב. ⁂°⁂ 011
Reposted by jesseEnnius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Sukkot 2026 begins at sundown on 25th September: here is depicted a sukkah and a man holding a lulav branch and an etrog. BL Or 5024; Pisḳe R. Yeshayah Aḥaron (Halakhic decisions of Isaiah of Trani, the younger); 1374 CE; Italy N; f.70v @blmedieval.bsky.social 0216
Reposted by jessemaimonides nutz @maimonidesnutz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I wanted to show y’all what I’m working on here first! It’s a Lilith amulet in the shape of a C1 (atlas) vertebra. My thought is that if you have something trapped in the bone where your head meets the rest of your body, it will be both the upper and lower limit of who you could be in the world 57011
jesse @einsofist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026broke: "Ashkenaz" woke: ערי לותר - "the cities of Lotharingia" 030
Reposted by jesseHadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026i lucked out with my airport reading 2708
Reposted by jesseandrew phillips @herfst.bsky.social · 22/09/2026nn msy sꜣw ‘no one is born wise’ —Maxims of Ptaḥḥotep, Prisse Papyrus 5,6 (ca. 2000 BCE) 2176
Reposted by jesseDr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 18/09/2026This is "The Confluence of the Two Seas," a legal treatise comparing schools of Islamic law, composed in the 13th century. Texts like this were produced with wide margins to allow readers to annotate as they studied. It was kept in the Omari Mosque in Gaza, destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in 2023. 13819
Reposted by jessePratima @ismipratima.bsky.social · 10/09/2026A piece by yours truly about the first reference to a Deccan merchant association in a Geniza document. I had fun writing this one! Come for the merchant associations, and stay for the Ina Garten quote www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...lib.cam.ac.ukFragment of the Month: August 2026In August's Fragment of the Month, Pratima Gopalakrishnan finds evidence for a Deccan merchant association in a Genizah document. 33927
jesse @einsofist.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I’m consistently shocked when religious Muslim friends make plans on Saturdays or eat meat from non kosher restaurants 030
jesse @einsofist.bsky.social · 15/05/2026really don't understand the Yuval Harari hate, I thought this was excellent 040
jesse @einsofist.bsky.social · 13/05/2026selecting "add to dictionary" when Microsoft Word thinks "rabbinization" is a spelling error 030
jesse @einsofist.bsky.social · 11/05/2026last week, I had a dream about a writing a chapter on the Tunisian Jewish theory of sexuality. last night, I dreamt I needed to fix the pagination in a specific footnote 030
jesse @einsofist.bsky.social · 23/04/2026I'm seeing people say this is the first time a Greek literary text was found in mummification material — weren't there famously a bunch of Sappho fragments excavated the same way? Misogynistic erasure? 132
jesse @einsofist.bsky.social · 21/04/2026I would love to be pope because it seems like you mostly get to travel around Africa and the Middle East 150
jesse @einsofist.bsky.social · 16/04/2026watching the rabbinist slowly nod off in this un-air-conditioned Syriac lecture 030
jesse @einsofist.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Many get defensive when they hear others talk about the joy of eating kitniyot. I sit my ashki ass down and listen 051
Reposted by jesseJohn McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 28/03/2026'Portrait de femme en Flore' An intriguing 17thC (c. 1600-1650) painting by an unknown artist from the Louvre. 0124
Reposted by jesseMaarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Important new publication of historical Berber lingusitics, esp. onomastics. Edited and organized by the brilliant Carles Múrcia (not on here, I think), with, among many others, articles by @lameensouag.bsky.social and myself. 13818
jesse @einsofist.bsky.social · 26/03/2026I accept that I am in essence a lame white nerd based on the irrefutable evidence that when I listen to Vampire Weekend songs i feel them in my soul 120
Reposted by jesseEnnius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 25/03/2026'Mulier amicta sole et luna sub pedibus ei[u]s et sup[e]r caput corona stellarum duodecim'. BL Add 11695; Beatus of Liébana, Commentary on the Apocalypse; 1091-1109 CE; Spain, N.; ff.147v, 148r @blmedieval.bsky.social 09733
Reposted by jesseJohn McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Portrait of a young man in a mitre, Pieter Van Mol, c. 1630-1640. (Louvre) 1264
jesse @einsofist.bsky.social · 23/03/2026All you need to know about Camus to understand he was kind of stupid is that he tried to do the “both sides have an equal claim to this land and we have to learn to live together” thing but with FRENCH ALGERIA 050
jesse @einsofist.bsky.social · 21/03/2026"... a history whose passage is almost imperceptible, that of man in his relationship to his environment, a history in which all change is slow, a history of constant repetition" (Braudel) 030
jesse @einsofist.bsky.social · 18/03/2026burying a rabbi in the sand and making a statue of Dionysus out of driftwood 130
jesse @einsofist.bsky.social · 18/03/2026deep esoteric Buddhist syncretism: medieval Rhineland Jews figuring out that "emptiness" and "Jesus" have the same gematria 050
jesse @einsofist.bsky.social · 12/03/2026"...the [late medieval] Christian populace frequently accused Jews of engaging in magic and witchcraft, an accusation which though not fully borne out by facts nevertheless undoubtedly represented a kernel of historical reality." (Baron) 140
jesse @einsofist.bsky.social · 11/03/2026I want to be able to tell my grandchildren that I once spoke Arabic better than English 020
jesse @einsofist.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Are people ever gonna get tired of the Scholem/Benjamin thing or are we gonna keep getting four books published on that every year 150
jesse @einsofist.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Midrash: "a genre which systematically erases the distance between philology and ethics" 041
Reposted by jesseTuring Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴 @dov.bsky.social · 02/03/2026there is no such thing as western civilisation 3507
jesse @einsofist.bsky.social · 02/03/2026the new testament is so funny bro this guy is just a reconstructionist rabbi 0102
