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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 06/10/2026
Another day, another page from a manuscript unique in world history. This is the "Cambridge Yiddish Codex," the earliest known collection of Yiddish texts (1382 CE). It preserves Jewish homilies, animal fables, and a lost poem of the German epic tradition, "Dukus Horant." It was discovered in Cairo.
Light brown waterstained paper folio with about 20 lines of Yiddish text in brown-black ink, much of which is faded. The background is white and a small red caption reads T-S 10K22 (https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-TS-00010-K-00022/23).
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"Loneliness is all that oligarchs will give you for free. Loneliness without solitude: the ultimate totalitarian win." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/i-wandered...
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I Wandered Lonely in The Cloud
How AI is destroying the life of the mind.
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And-Boo 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Enabled by the same functional advantages that once made it the medium of choice for universal digital communication, text becomes increasingly estranged from us as it is made into fuel for the models and machines." — @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social www.project-syndicate.org/magazine/tex...
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When Words Are No Longer for Us
Matthew Kirschenbaum announces the arrival of the “textpocalypse,” and considers what it will mean for liberal societies.
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mikaeltron.bsky.social @mikaeltron.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“Listen, honey, if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.” gloria steinem
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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
We need to talk more about the Martyrdom of Clement – how Clement is drowned via anchor in the Bosporan Kingdom, and then God recedes the sea by 3 miles to reveal that Clement's drowned body is inside an underwater marble shrine that will appear every November 25th for folks to visit
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Matt Thiessen @mattthiessen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Wendell Berry: “Though we have life, it is beyond us. We do not know how we have it, or why. We do not know what is going to happen to it, or to us. It is not predictable; though we can destroy it, we cannot make it. It cannot... be controlled." www.kentucky.com/news/local/a...
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‘Another great light gone out.’ Kentucky author, activist Wendell Berry dies at 92.
Wendell Berry championed small farms, agrarianism and conservation for decades.
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The Jewish Quarterly Review @thejqr.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
JQR 116.3 has landed and this one truly has something for everyone: the Babylonian Talmud, Cairo Geniza letters, medieval MSS diagrams, Nahmanides, early Hasidic lit, and Maimonides in dialogue with Hegel. And not a paywall in sight! Peruse the contents: katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/bl...
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New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Summer 2026
JQR 116.3 is now available, online and in print
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b
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And-Boo 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
"including: Greek or Syriac patristics, Byzantine theology & culture, Russian religious thought, contemporary Orthodox or Eastern Catholic theology & culture"
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Andy Roddick @aroddick.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
And that's why they keep jam, jam, jamming it down our throats…
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Every so often, it appears, people do indeed need to be reminded that, because the enslavement of people was the foundation of the Roman-era economy, the foundation of the Roman-era economy was the enslavement of people.
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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 16/05/2026
HMML has one of the best digital collections of rare, weird, and at-risk manuscripts anywhere in the world. Their Virtual Reading Room (www.vhmml.org) let me study Syriac manuscripts in inaccessible Syrian monasteries *during the pandemic*. Here, you can search by country: hmml.org/collections/...
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HMML Repository List
HMML Repository List page
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Isis Naucratis @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
I had a great convo with the Classical Antiquity Sidequest podcast about the 🇮🇱 🇺🇲 axis' willful destruction of heritage in Palestine, Iran and Lebanon, which I consider to be a form of memorial violence. Let us know your thoughts if you have a listen!
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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
TIL that during the Lemuria (May 9–13), Romans would drive off angry ancestral ghosts in the household by throwing black beans over their shoulder and making the ghost pick them up
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mikaeltron.bsky.social @mikaeltron.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
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Jo VanEvery @jovanevery.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
AND further evidence of confusion about what teaching (and even knowledge) actually is. Knowledge is NOT a synonym for information. Teaching is not just communicating information.
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
A heartbreaking 💔 and important piece. “Scholars have warned that Azerbaijan’s targeted destruction of these sites, having accelerated since the swift and deadly 2023 takeover of the Artsakh region, amounts to ‘cultural genocide.’” hyperallergic.com/azerbaijan-d... by @surrhealism.bsky.social
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Azerbaijan Destroys Armenian Holy Mother of God Church in Artsakh
Satellite imagery confirms that the regime demolished the church in Artsakh’s former capital city of Stepanakert.
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CUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Congratulations to Prof. Karen B. Stern, who has been named a 2026 Guggenheim Fellow! www.gc.cuny.edu/news/profess... @classicsgc.bsky.social @brooklyncollege.bsky.social @guggfellows.bsky.social
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Professor Karen B. Stern Named 2026 Guggenheim Fellow
Karen B. Stern, who studies ancient Jewish life through archaeology, material culture, and the senses, has been named a 2026 Guggenheim Fellow.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
The Jedwabne pogrom of 1941 was one of the most brutal acts in the entire Shoah, committed by Poles against Polish Jews, not by the occupying Germans. Now the local government and people are denying that Poles committed this act. www.timesofisrael.com/polish-towns...
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Polish town’s new ‘information center’ denies murders of Jews by local Poles in 1941
Family of Jewish man who survived the Jedwabne massacre is trying to get the new installation removed: 'We call it a denial museum, because that’s what it is'
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Maia Kotrosits @maiakotro.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
@philharland.bsky.social ‘s book has arrived!
A beautiful new book with a blue cover that says: Ethnic Relations in the Ancient Mediterranean: Social Life Under Empire by Philip A. Harland
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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Ophir Münz-Manor on “Changing Attitudes towards Christianity in Jewish Liturgical Poetry: from Late Antique Palestine to Medieval Europe” OPEN ACCESS brill.com/view/journal...
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Steven Rich @datab.ae · 11/04/2026
BREAKING: the judges who dismissed high-profile cases in immigration court against two international students who have advocated for Palestinian causes, Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi, were fired yesterday, alongside four other judges. /w @haleaziz.bsky.social and @nicknehamas.bsky.social
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Judges Fired After Blocking Deportations of Pro-Palestinian Students
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Matt Thiessen @mattthiessen.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
David Bentley Hart: "My fear of theodicy is that it becomes not just a justification of God but a justification of evil. It’s not just that I’m trying to justify God in the face of a child dying from diphtheria or a death camp; I’m actually justifying the death of that child and that death camp."
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Opinion | ‘The Reason I’m Not an Atheist Is That I Think the Philosophical Arguments Against It Are Unanswerable’
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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I'm not sure "controversial" is how I'd describe a law that sets forth the penalty for one ethnic group, but not another. Here's what the UN had to say about this law: www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Mueller’s FBI persecuted Muslims nationwide. He was responsible for one of the most egregious, systemic violations of civil rights in the history of the FBI, which is saying a whole lot. This was Mueller’s FBI:
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FBI Teaches Agents: 'Mainstream' Muslims Are 'Violent, Radical'
The FBI is teaching its agents that ordinary American Muslims are likely to be terrorist sympathizers; that the Prophet Mohammed was a “cult leader”; and that Islamic charity is no more than a “fundin...
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NASSCAL @nasscal.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Added to e-Clavis: Christian apocrypha ~ Homily on the Trinity and the Creation of the Archangel Michael, by Pseudo-Palladian of Ephesus, compiled by Lasse Løvlund Toft. www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-chr...
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Pope Leo XIV’s Vatican newspaper is the only publication in the Western world to run the photograph of 150 Iranian girls' graves — killed in President Trump's military strikes — on its front page.
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
"Even an effort to catalog and digitize the papers of Thomas Gage, a British general in the American Revolution, was guilty of “promoting inclusivity and diversity in historical research.” + Important update on the lawsuit fr AHA, MLA, ACLS etc. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...
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When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
BREAKING: The US has bombed Tehran’s main refinery and burning oil is now flooding down the streets into the city’s sewers. This is a vision from hell, unleashed by the US tonight. (🎥 Vahid Online)
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Concentration camps: “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."
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Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors...
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Ian N Mills @iannelsonmills.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
How did early readers think about the relationship between the gospels? Repost to enter a drawing to win a free book.
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Stu @rickybaker51.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Rumeya Ozturk has resumed her studies and Betar, the witch hunt org who pursued Palestinian protesters, has dissolved. As @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social says, I regret to inform you that we are going to win.
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Dan Joslyn-Siemiatkoski @danjoslynsiem.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
The arsonist who burned Beth Israel in Jackson stated he burned it because it was a Jewish site of worship and called it a "synagogue of Satan." That phrase first appears in Revelation 2:9. This is why Christians have to talk about and deal with Christian antisemitism. apnews.com/article/miss...
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FBI: Suspect in Mississippi synagogue fire targeted institution because of its 'Jewish ties'
The FBI said Monday that a suspect in the arson fire at a Mississippi synagogue admitted to targeting the institution because of its ‘Jewish ties.’
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Simcha Gross @simchagross.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Great episode of Byzantium & Friends w/Aaron Butts! While centering on Aksum, it engages key questions in the study of late antique empires, such as how to historicize the use of religious imagery in imperial self-presentation, & the proxy war model (e.g. Bowersock) open.spotify.com/episode/4gkP...
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146. Ezana of Aksum, the first Christian king in Africa, with Aaron Butts
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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
"He cited ASU’s charter mission and specifically its emphasis on 'fundamental responsibility' for the communities it serves . . . 'ASU seemed to me to be doing something very right in its commitment to inclusion,' Padilla Peralta said." www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...
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Professor Dan-el Padilla Peralta, champion of anti-racism in classics, to leave Princeton in August
Padilla Peralta will enter a teaching position at Arizona State University in order to pursue an interest in public service.
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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Vladimir Nabokov’s Delightful Butterfly Drawings
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Vladimir Nabokov’s Delightful Butterfly Drawings
We don't often talk about the hobbies (other than drinking, anyway) of respected twentieth-century writers.
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Seth L. Sanders @nabalkattu.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
"Among the Elohim a Human Victim I wander Vain is thy Covenant O Jehovah I am the Accuser & Avenger Of Blood O Earth Cover not thou the Blood of Abel!"
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The Complete Poetry and Prose of William BlakeASU Libraries Catalog
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Bigfoot Books & Brews @bigfootbooksnc.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Omar El Akkad, winner of the 2025 National Book Award for non-fiction for his book “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This” about the genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza, speaking tonight at the awards gala in New York City where he accepted the award. #NationalBookAwards
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Richard Kaczynski @richardkaczynski.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Mind-blowingly rare first editions of esoteric books that I got to hold yesterday (courtesy of Justin Sledge), #2 of 5: First Hebrew printing of Sefer Yetzirah (Mantua, Italy, 1562), the early Kabbalistic account of how G-d created the universe through the 22 letters of the alefbet & the 10 sefirot
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13/11/2025
Removing a monument honoring Black US soldiers has nothing to do with DEI. It’s erasure of history and it’s straight-up racism.
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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Open access! Special issue of Textual Reasoning, Vol. 16 No. 2 (2025): Elijiah Zvi Soloveitchik, The Jewish Jesus, and the Problem of Supercessionism journal.libraries.wm.edu/jtr?fbclid=I...

A Jew Who Loved Christianity As A Jew: The Strange Nineteenth-Century Orthodox Case of Elijiah Zvi Soloveitchik
Shaul Magid


From Volozhin to London: Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik’s Jewish-Christian Holy Spirit
Shira Billet

How Nice: On R. Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik and Christianity
Martin Kavka

Can God Reject the Jewish People?: Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik, Supersessionism, and Modern Jewish Thought
Elias Sacks

Response to Shaul Magid’s the Bible, the Talmud and the New Testament: Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik’s Commentary on the Gospels
Susannah Ticciati
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
'The University of Cambridge has announced it has acquired and for the first time unsealed Levy’s personal archive, including letters, draft manuscripts, photographs and diary entries. It is expected the material will inform a wealth of new scholarship on her life, work and mental health.' 1/2
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‘A girl of genius’: archives unsealed of Amy Levy, queer Jewish writer admired by Oscar Wilde
Levy’s work was ‘ahead of her time’ and speaks to current debate around feminism, LGBTQ+ literature and Jewish identity, say researchers
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Krista Dalton @kristadalton.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I am pleased to announce that John Penniman, Emanuel Fiano, and I are launching a new book series for the study of religion in late antiquity with Fordham University Press. If you have a book-in-progress looking for a home, please reach out to discuss your project! fordhampress.com/theoria
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Huh? Second largest public university in New Jersey. R2 level doctoral research university.
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Jeremiah Coogan @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
If scholars are going to cite or assign an English translation of Eusebius's Church History, it really ought to be Jeremy Schott's excellent work, which is a significant improvement on anything else available—and is also priced extremely accessibly. www.ucpress.edu/books/the-hi...
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The History of the Church by Eusebius of Caesarea - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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NASSCAL @nasscal.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Join us Friday for the November 2025 First Friday workshop with Ivan Miroshnikov (University of Helsinki). Register at the email in the image below for the pre-circulated paper and Zoom link.
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