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Jacob Lollar

@jalollar.bsky.social
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Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow (2022-2024) British Academy International Fellow (2024-2027)

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Tony Burke @tonyburke.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Jacob Lollar opens his workshop on Working with Manuscripts from the Mediterranean World. Thanks for hosting us @jalollar.bsky.social
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Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East @camne.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
An excellent workshop, organised by CAMNE member @jalollar.bsky.social
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Jacob Lollar @jalollar.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Almost here!
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Jacob Lollar @jalollar.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
The ERC consolidator grant guidelines just changed the length of the B.2 section of the proposal by half—from 14 to 7 pages! erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
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Changes to the 2026 and 2027 Work Programmes
With the launch of the competitions for grants under ERC Work Programme 2026 in July of this year, several changes to the submission of applications and the evaluation of proposals will apply. The mai...
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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
New issue of Novum Testamentum Vol. 67, No. 3 (2025) brill.com/view/journal... @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social @degruyterbrill.bsky.social @jalollar.bsky.social @goure.bsky.social
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Jacob Lollar @jalollar.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Troubling news regarding St. Catherine’s Monastery. en.jerusalem-patriarchate.info/announcement...
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Statement by the Patriarchate of Jerusalem on Egyptian Court Order Impacting the Monastery of Saint Catherine - Jerusalem Patriarchate - News Gate
30 May 2025   “Show mercy to those who honor my memory” St Catherine of Alexandria   The Patriarchate of Jerusalem was deeply troubled to hear of moves by the Egyptian Court Order to seize lands surro...
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Jacob Lollar @jalollar.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Next year in Rome!
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Jacob Lollar @jalollar.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Just saw this one from a friend 😂😂😂
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Jamey Walters @jedwardwalters.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Time to edit some proofs!
Cover image for a new book: The Cambridge Companion to Christian Heresy, edited by Richard Flower. Colorful background image shows people, demons, and an angel.Image of the first page of my chapter in the book, entitled "The Nestorian Controversy: Dyophysites, Monophysites, and Miaphysites.
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Jacob Lollar @jalollar.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Important new book out! Looking forward to getting it. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
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Working with Manuscripts
A first-of-its-kind handbook outlining best practices and common pitfalls for students and textual scholars interested in beginning to work with manuscripts ...
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James F. McGrath (ReligionProf) @religionprof.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
New Testament scholar Hans-Josef Klauck has died
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Pater Dr. Hans-Josef Klauck verstorben - Franziskaner
Pater Hans-Josef Klauck gehörte zu den bekanntesten deutsch- und englischsprachigen neutestamentlichen Exegeten.
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Jacob Lollar @jalollar.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Next week! www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
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26-mar - Durham University
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Jacob Lollar @jalollar.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Durham Classics and Ancient History and Theology and Religion are top 10 worldwide! Excited to be part of this great university! www.durham.ac.uk/discover/qs-...
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QS World Rankings By Subject - Durham University
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Jacob Lollar @jalollar.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
The decline of democracy comes at the hands of unregulated big tech. Vance’s bewildering accusations against the EU and Ukraine aim at dismantling the regulatory institutions that keep tech companies in check.
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Jacob Lollar @jalollar.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Send in a paper! It’s going to be a great conference!
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Mara Nicosia @mara-nicosia.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
What a book launch! Thanks to @albertorigolio.bsky.social for introducing us and to Aaron Butts for leading and commenting so nicely on the book. Huge thanks to @zoxe.bsky.social, G Kiraz, A Cherkashina, M Farina and H Mutzafi @gorgiaspress.bsky.social @durhamclassics.bsky.social
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Tony Burke @tonyburke.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
From Religious Studies at York Twitter account: The administration at York University has suspended admissions to the Religious Studies program . . . The faculty have written this statement. We ask you to will distribute it widely and write to York's administration to protest this decision.
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Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
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A Campaign To Save Saint Catherine's Monastery In Sinai (EN-GR) - Helleniscope
Sinai Monastery: World Heritage Watch Campaign to Save the Monument The watchdog warns that the character of the UNESCO World Heritage Site is being altered at the altar of a huge tourism project 25/0...
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NASSCAL @nasscal.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Please join us for NASSCAL‘s First Friday of March workshop with Philippe Therrien (Université Laval).
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Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
💥 Join us for this week's research seminar! 👩‍🏫 @jalollar.bsky.social (@britishacademy.bsky.social International Fellow), "Between Myth and History: Apocrypha, Hagiography and Historiography in Syriac Manuscripts” 📅 1pm, Weds 19 Feb 🔗 Ritson Room / hybrid
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Jacob Lollar @jalollar.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Great resource for those fellow nerds interested in Latin manuscripts. delm-net.github.io?fbclid=IwY2x...
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DELM: Databases of Early Latin Manuscripts
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Jacob Lollar @jalollar.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
A wonderful book. I highly recommend. One of the most readable and enjoyable academic books I have ever read.
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Jacob Lollar @jalollar.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Finally got this today! I can’t wait to get into it!
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The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Watch the full episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyqn...
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Jon Stewart & Jen Psaki Try To Understand WTF Is Going On? | The Weekly Show
YouTube video by The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
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Jacob Lollar @jalollar.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Scholarly crowd sourcing: I’m looking for some studies on pilgrim and/or monastic travel routes in the eastern Mediterranean. I already have Egeria’s travelogue, any others people recommend?
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Jacob Lollar @jalollar.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Workshop on Aristotle soon in Durham! Spoiler: lots of Syriac and Arabic material to be discussed! Join us!
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Jacob Lollar @jalollar.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Important new translation of Strategius’ account of the sack of Jerusalem in 614! Open access! isac.uchicago.edu/research/pub...
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LAMINE 5. The Capture of Jerusalem by the Persians in 614 CE by Strategius of Mar Saba | Institute for the Study of Ancient CulturesLAMINE 5. The Capture of Jerusalem by the Persians in 614 CE by Stra...
Sean W. Anthony and Stephen J. Shoemaker Series Editors: Antoine Borrut and Fred M. Donner
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Jacob Lollar @jalollar.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Literary Beginnings in Late Antiquity workshop at All Souls in Oxford is underway!
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NASSCAL @nasscal.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
The NASSCAL First Friday workshop series on "Falling for Thekla" concludes with Tony Burke on December 6 at noon EST. To take part in the workshop, see the contact details in the image below.
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HMML @visithmml.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Applications are open for HMML’s Introduction to Arabic Manuscript Studies. This one-week intensive course will take place virtually, from June 23 to 27, 2025. Application deadline is March 3, 2025. More information: hmml.org/programs/arabic-mss-studies
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Jacob Lollar @jalollar.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Coming soon from Mohr Siebeck!
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Alberto Rigolio @albertorigolio.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Interesting reflections on our Syriac conference last spring, by some of those who were there! Read more here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/cur... www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ESW...
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Syriac Studies in the UK international conference 2024
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Alberto Rigolio @albertorigolio.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Join us in Oxford on Dec. 9th for a workshop on Literary Beginnings in Late Antiquity! International experts will discuss the rise of Syriac, Coptic, Armenian, and Ethiopic literatures in the early centuries of our era. sites.google.com/view/literar...
Workshop programme. For information please see

https://sites.google.com/view/literarybeginnings/homepage
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Jacob Lollar @jalollar.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
For those who haven’t seen it, Roberta Mazza’s new book about illegal manuscript trade is out and it is a really great read.
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NASSCAL @nasscal.bsky.social · 27/09/2024
Please join us next Friday, October 4th at 12pm EDT as we continue our "Falling for Thekla" series with @jalollar.bsky.social's piece on the reception of Thekla in Syriac-speaking traditions. See you there!
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Janet Spittler @janetspittler.bsky.social · 25/09/2024
NASSCAL First Friday in October! Our semester of Thecla continues with @jalollar.bsky.social and the Syriac tradition!
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Ancient Jew Review @ancientjewreview.bsky.social · 05/09/2024
Our forum on the new volume of essays edited by Ivan Miroshnikov, Parabiblica Coptica, continues with a response from Jacob Lollar #coptic #apocrypha @mohrsiebeck.bsky.social @jalollar.bsky.social
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Parabiblica Coptica and the Study of Apocrypha: Some observations from a scholar of Syriac ‘Parabiblica’ — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW
The essays in this volume thus provide a brief sample of what it undoubtedly a virtual goldmine for comparative literary and historical inquiry.
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Jacob Lollar @jalollar.bsky.social · 30/08/2024
NASSCAL First Fridays are back! Looking forward to a great series talking about Thekla. First up: Andrew Jacobs on the Life of Thekla.
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NASSCAL @nasscal.bsky.social · 29/03/2024
Apocrypha lovers, I'd like to draw your attention to our next First Fridays Workshop featuring the work of @jalollar.bsky.social. Next Friday, April 5th at 12 EDT we'll be discussing Lollar's work on Ephesians and competing Christianities in 2nd c. Ephesus. Not to be missed!
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NASSCAL @nasscal.bsky.social · 08/01/2024
Added to e-Clavis: Materiae apocryphorum ~ Altarpiece and Chapel of Thecla, Tarragona Cathedral, compiled by @tonyburke.bsky.social with Jacob Lollar. www.nasscal.com/materiae-apo...
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Jacob Lollar @jalollar.bsky.social · 08/01/2024
New from Materiae Apocryphorum: www.nasscal.com/materiae-apo...
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Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · 01/01/2024
2024 will have war, floods and sore throats, medieval guide predicts www.medievalists.net/2024/01/2024...
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2024 will have war, floods and sore throats, medieval guide predicts - Medievalists.net
Be prepared for a rather bad 2024, as a medieval guide for predicting the year suggests that people will have to deal with illnesses and a lack of food.
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Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · 27/12/2023
20 Open Access Books about the Middle Ages you can Read for Free www.medievalists.net/2023/12/20-o...
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20 Open Access Books about the Middle Ages you can Read for Free - Medievalists.net
Here are twenty recently published books that medievalists will enjoy and are free to download and read.
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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 24/12/2023
Few know it but the Bayeux Tapestry provides early evidence for Die Hard's reception as a Christmas movie
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NASSCAL @nasscal.bsky.social · 18/12/2023
Added to e-Clavis: Christian apocrypha ~ Martyrdom of Peter and Paul (Armenian), compiled by Tony Burke (@tonyburke.bsky.social). www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-chr...
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Martyrdom of Peter and Paul
Martyrium Petri et Pauli (armeniace) Standard abbreviation: Mart. Pet. Paul Other titles: none Clavis numbers: ECCA 827; CANT 206 Category: Apocryphal Acts Related literature: Acts of Peter, Hypomn…
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Jacob Lollar @jalollar.bsky.social · 16/12/2023
For those who work in Late Antiquity and beyond, Anthony Kaldellis’s new book, a massive History of Byzantium, just came out! Check out his podcast Byzantium and Friends as well! mamlikshistory.blogspot.com/2023/12/down...
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Jacob Lollar @jalollar.bsky.social · 11/12/2023
If you follow Syriac, Coptic, Arabic, art history, monasticism, and a bunch of other topics (especially in Egypt), check out this recent update on discoveries at Deir al-Surian. Really amazing images they have recently excavated! ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/coll...
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Jacob Lollar @jalollar.bsky.social · 07/12/2023
My new book on the Doctrina Addai has finally hit Amazon. Check it out! www.amazon.com/Doctrine-Add...
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Jacob Lollar @jalollar.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
New book is finally up. Check it out! wipfandstock.com/978166675206...
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The Doctrine of Addai and the Letters of Jesus and Abgar- Wipf and Stock Publishers
The Doctrine of Addai tells the story of how Christianity came to the Syrian city of Edessa. It incorporates and adapts a correspondence between Jesus and th...
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