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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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Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Just made a very pretty packet of Hebrew, Latin, and Arabic paleography handouts for my @simmonsuniversity.bsky.social LIS students. Anyone want some? Here you go! Feel free to use (but please credit me if you do)...

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Bartomeu Obrador Cursach @cursach.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Hellenists talk a pile of nonsense.

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Marijn van Putten @phdnix.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

In 2025 @bnuyaminim.bsky.social and me taught a course on Comparative Semitics at the Leiden Summer School. After some cleaning up, we've decided to upload the syllabus and release it under a CC license for you and yours to peruse through. doi.org/10.17613/b4z...

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 20/08/2026

Agnes Lewis on Soldiers, ca. 1901: "To make them forget the fearful nature of their duty, the profession is gilded by the wearing of gay clothing. They wear gay uniforms, have honorable rank in society, [and] are praised loudly for whatever carnage they accomplish..."

8 lines of late Victorian cursive English script in black ink on white paper. Several words are struck through and rewritten.

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karstificación enjoyer @murderyrmemory.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

un saludo al monje ruso del siglo XV que, al copiar una parte de los salmos donde se habla de un "serafín con muchos ojos" ("serafimi mnogoočiti" en eslavo eclesiástico) decidió escribir la oo como un puñado de muchos ojos

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Who did it better? King David, Stuttgart Psalter, 9th century, f155v Johnny Cash in concert, late 1950s

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Biblioteca Tomás Navarro Tomás CCHS-CSIC @bibtntcsic.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Poemas castellanos de los siglos XV y XVI en aljamía hebrea Por Alfonso, Esperanza (ILC-CSIC) #OpenAccess #AccesoAbierto @digitalcsic.bsky.social Acceso en línea ⬇️ hdl.handle.net/10261/435529

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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

After years of wondering, I finally realized what the cal.huc.edu logo says (the innovative #Aramaic kaph threw me off): 𐤀𐤓𐤌𐤊𐤋𐤄 ʾrm klh 'all of Aram' (lit. 'Aram, all of it'), a quote from one of the Sefire steles.

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Bartomeu Obrador Cursach @cursach.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Si heu de regalar un llibre sobre religió, que sigui aquest. Un estudi monumental sobre la figura històrica de Jesús de Natzaret, la despolitització de la seva figura en els evangelis i com molta historiografia contemporània és poc més que teologia cientifista. I amb la millor portada possible.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 22/03/2026

Humanities are likewise not immune to this trend. Just in my own niche, I've seen numerous specialists in Biblical theology, comparative Semitics, book history, palaeography, etc. get annoyed at the mere suggestion that Orientalism and Eurocentrism are not solved problems.

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Bartomeu Obrador Cursach @cursach.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Una de les feines més polides de l’epigrafista és informar de la presència de rata-pinyades.

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jesse @einsofist.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Alphabet switching for the name of God in Judeo-Arabic: the word Allah الله is smelled with Arabic letters in this otherwise Hebrew-script text!

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 31/07/2024

Learning #Hebrew with wild hats. These images of how to pronounce and use your tongue when learning Hebrew were published in 1667 Germany. Access a digital copy of "Kurtzer Entwurff des Eigentlichen Natur-Alphabets der Heiligen Sprache" here: diglib.hab.de/drucke/xb-44... #bookhistory #earlymodern

Page of "Kurtzer Entwurff des Eigentlichen Natur-Alphabets der Heiligen Sprache" here: http://diglib.hab.de/drucke/xb-4496/start.htm

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Ice Princesses: The Men Switzerland has sent a white twink in an Aladdin outfit to do a program called “Journey Through The Orient.”

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Phlebas @phlebasphoen.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Es un poco descorazonador ver cómo se da pábulo a este tipo de cosas. La hipótesis, que como bien se reconoce, no es nueva, fue descartada en su momento por excelentes razones y ninguna de ellas ha dejado de estar vigente.

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Bartomeu Obrador Cursach @cursach.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Una mostra de vaixells antics representats en els hipogeus de Menorca, amb qualcun de més modern (que també n'hi ha i força).

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 18/04/2024

This is just a reminder that, in 1631, Robert Barker in London misprinted a famous line of the Holy Bible, namely „Thou shalt commit adultery“. The forbidden copies with the famous slip sold well, and a few survived in our catalogues. The edition was called the Wicked Bible afterwards. #bookhistory

A page from the 1631 King James (STC 2296) showing detail of Exodus 20. including the famous line with the missing „not“.

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El Mundo Today @elmundotoday.com · 16/01/2026

María Corina Machado ha lamentado el gesto y ha subrayado que el premio “no puede regalarse, revocarse, compartirse ni transferirse a otros”. Lee la noticia completa en la web: www.elmundotoday.com/2026/01/dona...

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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Pop-up AI defacing your article critical of AI captures a lot of what it feels like to work in this space. @lmesseri.bsky.social

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 07/01/2026

I hold a radical position which says - and this might be controversial in my professional field, which is academia - armies should not attack universities. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...

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Israeli assault on Palestinian university wounds dozens in West Bank raid

Casualties taken to Istishari Arab Hospital in Ramallah following an Israeli army attack on Birzeit University.

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Marijn van Putten @phdnix.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I've been interested recently by the question of where the asseverative particle la- in Quranic sentences is supposed to go. This is more complex than one would think.

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Biel Perelló @bielperello.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Fins als 27 anys: tothom espera molt de mi. Des dels 27: ningú no espera res de mi. 👍

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Bot @bdb-bot.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Entry: מִקְשָׁה n.f. place, field, of cucumbers

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Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

just as a reminder for those who share "Christmas greetings in Jesus' own language! Whoa!" videos every year: Saying "Jesus spoke Aramaic, which means he spoke Serta-phonology Western Syriac" is about as accurate as saying "Charlemagne spoke Frankish, which means he spoke Afrikaans"

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction." "How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...

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Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education - Public Books

We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

My favorite example: Tasawaq (northern Songhay, Niger) originally had yo "camel", yoyo "camels" (yo is a plural marker) yoyo became a singular. So now we have yoyo "camel" and yoyoyo "camels"

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Bartomeu Obrador Cursach @cursach.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Vetar revistes científiques com a autor perquè encara empren el sistema "op. cit."

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/nəˈθænjəl/ @nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Today in “Arabic dialects don’t come from classical Arabic”. Several dialects have a pronominal -t ending, e.g., Egyptian an-nās dōlat, “those/these people”. This, afaik, isn’t attested in classical Arabic but is found in several other Semitic languages. This feature thus didn't come from MSA.

(43) Pronouns with -V in Semitic
a. Akkadian
i. 3ms šuʾāti
ii. 3fs šiʾāti
b. Classical Ethiopic
i. 3ms wəʾətu
ii. 3fs yəʾəti
c. Ugaritic
i. 3ms hwt
ii. 3fs hyt
Given the data in 43, one can safely reconstruct a dual third person paradigm for proto Semitic:
(44) Proto-Semitic reconstruction
a. 3ms *suʾa / *suʾati
b. 3fs *siʾa / *siʾati

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Historian focusing on early modern book culture here. I am not sure that feeding a private company with all our past handwritings from archives is a solution or a way forward. Google‘s AI studio is a data trap. #skystorians

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Elvira Martín-Contreras @emartincontreras.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

A Hebrew incunabulum has been identified in the General Historical Library: an edition of the Psalms with commentary by David Qimhi, printed in Naples in 1487. More details in the latest issue of the journal "Helmantica": revistas.upsa.es/.../helma......

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Oxford Handbook to the End of Academia

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

The joys of holding a wine glass as big as your forearm in 1607…

A man on a copper plate print from 1607, holding a very big wine glass. Source: https://portraits.hab.de/werk/2335

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UCCi USAL @ucciusal.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

🌱 VISITAS GUIADAS | Pictura fallax. La ilustración botánica en la Biblioteca Histórica 🕕 18:00 h 📍 Sala de la Columna (Escuelas Mayores) Descubre la fascinante historia de la ilustración botánica a través de 22 libros de la Biblioteca General Histórica ➡️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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UCCi USAL @ucciusal.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

🌱 EXPOSICIÓN | Pictura fallax. La ilustración botánica en la Biblioteca Histórica Descubre la fascinante historia de la ilustración botánica a través de 22 libros de la Biblioteca General Histórica @usaloficial.bsky.social 📍 Sala de la Columna (Escuelas Mayores) 🗓️ hasta el 7 de enero de 2026

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Bartomeu Obrador Cursach @cursach.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Some years ago, I started compiling all the ancient inscriptions from Minorca to publish a corpus with archaeologist Joan C de Nicolás. I couldn’t imagine the surprises it would bring me. In the top, the Paleo-Amazigh personal names we published with Carles Múrcia: www.academia.edu/50839352/Lep...

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L'epigrafia antiga dels hipogeus de Menorca [Ancient epigraphy on the hypogea of Menorca]

[ENG] This paper gathers 22 inscriptions (some of them unpublished) dated to Roman period and read on the walls of 11 hypogea from Minorca (Balearic Islands). Although they share a similar context, th...

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Bartomeu Obrador Cursach @cursach.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Si França no pot fer-se càrrec del seu patrimoni arqueològic i artístic, un país més civilitzat hauria de preservar-lo perquè pugui arribar en condicions a les properes generacions. No és açò el que deien i diuen els espoliadors francesos, alemanys, britànics, etc.? www.vilaweb.cat/noticies/un-...

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Un robatori al Louvre obliga a tancar el museu durant tot el dia

El Museu del Louvre, un dels més famosos del món, ha anunciat aquest matí que romandrà tancat “per motius excepcionals”, segons un missatge publicat al compte oficial de la xarxa X. Poc després, la mi...

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andrew phillips @herfst.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

A 3,300 year-old Egyptian-Akkadian vocabulary from Amarna, with Egyptian words written in cuneiform ši-na-aḫ=šnꜥ (unit of weight) ši-na-aḫ-wu₄=šnꜥwj (dual of šnꜥ) ḫa-am-tu₄ šu-nu-uḫ=ḫmtw šnꜥw (three šnꜥ) … na-ab-na-su=nꜣ bnšw (the doorposts) DU-as-bu=tꜣ jsbt (the chair) pa-ḫa-tu₄=pꜣ ḥꜥtj (the bed)

Copy of tablet fragment EA 368, with several lines of cuneiform script on both sides. Egyptian words are transliterated into cuneiform syllables, followed by a translation into Akkadian, which has been lost in many lines.

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Phlebas @phlebasphoen.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

I’m constantly amazed by how much the Brill crew just doesn’t give a single solitary fuck about cover art. "Aramait", seriously?

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Bartomeu Obrador Cursach @cursach.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

El mestre Joan Mesquida encara emprava el mètode de Baldiri Reixac (Girona, 1749) a Ciutadella de Menorca l’any 1831! I amb l’afegitó d’unes quartilles de lectoescriptura precioses.

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Steph Halmhofer @cultarchaeo.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Tl;dr: fascists are losers who demand to be taken seriously and they view sciences as a source of legitimacy, so they like to dress their BS ideas up to look sciencey and that's why when you look at fascism you will find pseudoscience.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 29/08/2025

Been reading about Elamite a bit more due to the UChicago debacle, and the wikipedia article (citing Ávarez-Mon et al 2018) says "The Acts of the Apostles (c. 80–90 AD) mentions the language as if it was still current. There are no later direct references". Elamite experts please weigh in, because..

Passage from page 6 of Gottheil's 1887 edition of Elias of Nisibis' Syriac grammar. 4 lines are highlighted yellow. They translate: "But the Hebrews, Syrians, Persians, Kushites, Elamites, Medes, Phoenecians, Alans, and Arabs, as well as other unknown to us, do not have enough letters to express the sounds that they write in their languages"

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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Peshat, remez, derash, sod

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Puño @puno.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Hay personas adultas completamente convencidas de que tienen alguna relación con personas y eventos ocurridos hace quinientos u ochocientos años.

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Bartomeu Obrador Cursach @cursach.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Fas una feina de manera desinteressada i una base de dades, que té vocació de ser referent a l'Estat, reprodueix sense contextualitzar correctament el teu material gràfic (fora permís o comunicació) amb una marca d'aigua inexplicable. Gràcies per donar-vos visibilitat, però ara explica què és 5.1.1.

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Seth L. Sanders @nabalkattu.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

What is the Jews' problem (ideologically speaking, according to Biale)? "The very rapidity with which the Jews have moved from powerlessness to power has produced a crisis of Jewish ideology" namely: our political theories are all still responding to an ahistorical self-image of impotence.

The very rapidity with which the Jews have moved from
powerlessness to power has produced a crisis of Jewish ide-
ology. The ways in which Jews conceive of politics were
developed in Eastern Europe at the turn of the century; the
great ideologies of Zionism, Bundism, socialism, and liberal-
ism were all responses to the increasing impotence of the
Jews of Europe, an impotence that culminated in the Holo-
caust. Although some of these ideologies no longer exist and
others have changed drastically, they remain the vocabulary
of Jewish politics. Today, these forms of discourse appear
increasingly irrelevant in the light of the achievement of
Jewish sovereignty in Israel and the relative political power
of the Jewish Diaspora in the West, especially in the United
States. In both Israel and the Diaspora, a new political lan-
guage is only beginning to emerge, a language for under-
standing both the possibilities and the limitations of Jewish
political power in the modern world.

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Bartomeu Obrador Cursach @cursach.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Necessit ajuda. I need some help. Escriptura àrab molt esquemàtica? Schematic Arabic script? Si és així, només podria ser del s. X al XIII. If so, must be 10th–13th c. L'hauria de catalogar? Should I catalogue it?

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