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Sophia Dege-Müller @sophiademue.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I am excited to share my new publication "The Life of Susanna in the Light of Beta Israel Manuscript Tradition" which just appeared in this cool new book! www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/book/inte...

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Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

#NewPublication 👀 #OpenAccess #EthiopicBible #Patristics @sophiademue.bsky.social "The Ethiopic Version of the Introduction to the Psalms by Eusebius of Caesarea (CAe 6719): Preliminary Remarks on its Manuscript Transmission and Vorlage"

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Universität Hamburg @uni-hamburg.de · 03/09/2026

Starting Grant für @sophiademue.bsky.social: Die Expertin für äthiopische Handschriften erhält vom @erc.europa.eu 2,5 Millionen Euro – eine Million Euro mehr als bisherige Preisträgerinnen und Preisträger. Sie erforscht Schriftstücke äthiopischer Juden, die Ende des 20. Jh. nach Israel emigrierten.

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Was definiert eine religiöse Handschrift?

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Sophia Dege-Müller @sophiademue.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

🥳 I am excited and through the moon to be part of this year's @erc.europa.eu Starting grant winners! 🤩 Time to celebrate! Read a first description here www.uni-hamburg.de/newsroom/pre... Congratulations to all winners 🍾

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Symbolbild deutsche Wissenschaftsförderung.

Ein Sackgassen-Verkehrsschild. Darunter ein Verbotsschild. Darunter ein Schild mit Text: Forschungsallee gesperrt.

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Sophia Dege-Müller @sophiademue.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Extremely happy to share the link for my open access book: www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/ddo/artikel/... write me for an English version (deepl), or practice your German!

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Universität Hamburg @uni-hamburg.de · 19/12/2025

In Äthiopien liegt die Müttersterblichkeit mehr als 150-mal höher als in Deutschland. Ein mit 30.000 Euro gefördertes Transferprojekt an der UHH will Frauen und Mädchen nun Infos rund um Gesundheit, Hygiene und Ernährung zur Verfügung stellen – insbesondere für werdende Mütter mit Behinderungen.

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Digitale Werkzeuge zur Verbesserung der Müttergesundheit in Äthiopien

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Sophia Dege-Müller @sophiademue.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Excited to share my book!! What a year, totally wild. Will be available in open access soon www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/Der_Kampf_de...

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Sophia Dege-Müller @sophiademue.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Chance to learn Ge'ez next summer. Follow the link for more details: hmml.org/programs/int...

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Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Are you interested or do you know someone who's interested in doing a PhD on Arabic translations of the Bible? The new #BibliaArabica long-term project is looking for candidates! (tbh, that would have been my dream position a few years back) Spread the word!

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Open Position: Research Fellow for Biblia Arabica - Institut für den Nahen und Mittleren Osten - LMU München

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Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Big and very exciting news! We will soon have a long-term project in Munich @badw.de on the Jewish and Christian Arabic translations of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament #ArabicBible. Not only a wonderful topic, but the funding will enable otherwise impossible in-depth exploration.

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Drei neue Projekte der BAdW im Akademienprogramm

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Daniel Yacob @ethiopic.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

The latest update now finds 198 Ge'ez manuscripts back online! Bravo @britishlibrary.bsky.social !

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Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg @adwhamburg.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

„Notwendig, nützlich, neu – #Langzeitforschung in Hamburg“: Unsere multimediale, interaktive #Ausstellung lädt ein, die Vielfalt der sieben Langzeitforschungsprojekte der #AdWHH zu entdecken: vom 16.10. bis 15.12.2025 im Ausstellungsraum der @stabihh.bsky.social. 👉 www.awhamburg.de/aktuell/pres...

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17/2025 Akademie zeigt Ausstellung zur Langzeitforschung in Hamburg

„Notwendig, nützlich, neu – Langzeitforschung in Hamburg“: Unter dieser Überschrift lädt eine multimedial und interaktiv gestaltete Ausstellung ein, die Vielfalt der sieben Langzeitforschungsprojekte ...

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

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Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

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Anna @lovinurbanism.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Und wo ist der Flyer, der Männer auffordert sich nicht wie übergriffige Arschlöcher zu verhalten?

Ein Flyer mit diversen gezeichneten Frauen, darauf steht:
SPASS AUF DER WIESN, ABER SICHER!
TIPPS FÜR MÄDCHEN* UND FRAUEN*

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Some things never change! 4,000 year-old ancient Egyptian writing board with a student’s many spelling mistakes corrected in red ink by the teacher! 😂 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #Archaeology

Met museum photo of an ancient Egyptian rectangular wooden white-washed writing board with an exercise written in black hieratic script. It was written by a student named Iny-su whose spelling mistakes are corrected in red ink by the teacher. Hieratic script is an ancient Egyptian cursive version of hieroglyphics. The board measures 19 cm long x 43 cm wide and has a horizontal crack half way down the left-hand side. The wooden board was painted with white gesso, which now appears cream-coloured. This allowed boards to be whitewashed for use over and again.

The exercise is a practice in formal letter writing. The student Iny-su addresses the letter (presumably jokingly) to his brother Peh-ny-su, treating him like a wealthy authority figure. Wood, gesso, paint pigment. Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12, c. 1981–1802 BC.

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NASSCAL @nasscal.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

We are thrilled to announce NASSCAL's first in-person gathering since 2018. Hosted once again by the University of Virginia. Come and tell us about your work. Details at www.nasscal.com/meetings/

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Oh a tablet! So like an iPad? Cool. Makes sense. Laptops are so Babylonian.

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Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

JOB: come work with me @uni-konstanz.de ! We have a junior professorship to fill from 1 April 2026 (6 years, non-tenured, as funding comes from the Centre for Cultural Inquiry). The denomination is very timely: Environmental #Anthropology! Details ⬇️ stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/2... #academia

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Junior Professorship (non-tenure) in Environmental Anthropology

Deadline: 01.10.2025

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HMML @visithmml.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Digitization & cataloging is complete for the 35 Ethiopic manuscripts microfilmed at the Austrian National Library in Vienna, including Aethiop. 16 (HMML project number 24994), which is of particular importance to the study of the Ethiopic Bible. Learn more: hmml.org/collections/...

Madonna and Child, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Codex Vindobonensis Palatinus. Aethiop. 21, preserved by HMML as microfilm 24990

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Sophia Dege-Müller @sophiademue.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Excited to share the article that @mmonier.bsky.social and I wrote on the Introduction to the Gospels by ibn al-Assal and its Arabic and Ethiopic traditions 🤩 brill.com/view/journal...

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Mark @dcwritermark.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

“Global AI demand is projected to account for 4.2 – 6.6 billion cubic meters of water withdrawal in 2027, which is more than the total annual water withdrawal of Denmark or half of the United Kingdom.” arxiv.org/pdf/2304.03271

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Daniel Yacob @ethiopic.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

A new, color, scan of the undeciphered scroll in the @transcrireada.bsky.social‬ collection was published online this month. The scans give a boost to a new effort attempting to decipher it: gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b... ‪

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Lettre du roi Abba Bagibo au gouverneur du Godjam

Lettre du roi Abba Bagibo au gouverneur du Godjam -- -- manuscrits

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Kim Todzi @kim-todzi.de · 18/07/2025

Jetzt ist das von @nkleinoeder.bsky.social und mir herausgegebene Sonderheft zu ‚Reassessing Germany‘s Colonial Economies‘ auch online verfügbar: biblioscout.net/journal/vswg...

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Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte

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Sophia Dege-Müller @sophiademue.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

On my way to Poland for this fun conference

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Sophia Dege-Müller @sophiademue.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

I could not be happier - my good friend Bar Kribus is one of the winners of the 2025 Dan David Prize!! 🤩 He works with so much passion and dedication and his research on the Ethiopian Jews has defind the field in recent years! I feel incredibly proud of his accomplishment!

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Sophia Dege-Müller @sophiademue.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

I am so happy to have been part of this again! Editing a volume is great - seeing it published is even better 🤩 This volume includes also a humble contribution by myself - an abstract of my dissertation 😎 doi.org/10.15460/aet...

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Die Angelologie der Aksimaros-Literatur. Aufnahme und Anwendung eines literarischen Motivs | Aethiopica

Die Angelologie der Aksimaros-Literatur. Aufnahme und Anwendung eines literarischen Motivs

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Dr. Verena Krebs @krebsverena.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Mamaaaaaaaa, meine Forschung hat es in den SPIEGEL Geschichte geschafft!* 💃🥳 (bzw. man hat mich sogar eingeladen, einen —langen— Artikel für die neue Ausgabe zum Mittelalter beizusteuern) *Für Bildungsaufsteiger besonders krasse Sache. www.spiegel.de/geschichte/a...

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(S+) Afrikanische Gesandte im Mittelalter: Wie Äthiopier Europa entdeckten

Äthiopische Gesandte besuchten im ausgehenden Mittelalter die Höfe Europas. Dort hielt man sie für Abgesandte des Priesterkönigs Johannes und empfing sie mit größten Ehren. Doch die Geschichtsschreibu...

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Sophia Dege-Müller @sophiademue.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

It took seven years to make this available in open access form! But here is our book Oral Traditions in Ethiopian Studies www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/Oral_Traditi... Hope you enjoy it, read it share it! 🤩

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Oral Traditions in Ethiopian Studies

Buch | Harrassowitz Verlag

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HMML @visithmml.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Empress Zawditu (ዘውዲቱ) was one of the most important patrons for the churches of 20th-century Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, building both churches and libraries during her reign as the Queen of Queens (1916–1930 CE). Dr. Jeremy R. Brown shares some of her story: hmml.org/stories/seri...

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The Empress and the Church Library: Manuscript Donations by Empress Zawditu

“Church libraries in Ethiopia have often depended upon wealthy and powerful patrons...”

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Sophia Dege-Müller @sophiademue.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

www.instagram.com/reel/DHWfzDJ... She is talking about Slavery in Ethiopia and Eritrea and how it is still showing its effects till today! Important topic - and great colleagues have amazing research coming up to discuss this matter

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Today is St George's day and here is St George slaying the dragon BL Or 516; አርባዕቱ ወንጌል The Four Gospels; 17th century; Ethiopia; f.99v

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Sophia Dege-Müller @sophiademue.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Its been a great 10 days 🤩 another publication has just come out! Dedicated to Prof. Dr. August Haffner, professor for Semitistik at Innsbruck @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social until he had to vacate the position in 1938 when Nazi regime came to power and forced him to leave.

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Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) @dwdderwetterdienst.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

DWD-Fakten zur aktuellen #Trockenheit in #Deutschland: Noch nie seit Beginn der Auswertung 1931 war es in Deutschland im Zeitraum von Anfang Februar bis Mitte April so trocken wie 2025. Mehr Details auch zu #Europa in der heutigen Pressemitteilung unter www.dwd.de/presse

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Sophia Dege-Müller @sophiademue.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Publication day 🤩 I am excited to share the good news with you – our volume "Manuscript Treasures from Afro-Eurasia. Scribes, Patrons, Collectors, and Readers" has been published! It is open access and you can download and share it from DeGruyter's website. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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Historisches Kolleg @historischeskolleg.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 The Historische Kolleg is awarding up to 7 full-year fellowships for the Kolleg year 2026/27 (October 1 to September 30). The application deadline is April 30, 2025! More information at: www.historischeskolleg.de/fellowships/

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David Cielontko @dcielontko.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

It's out! Our new volume on the Infancy Gospel of Thomas. www.peeters-leuven.be/detail.php?s...

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Mina Monier @mmonier.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Pleased to share that an article by @sophiademue.bsky.social and me on a medieval introduction to the Gospels and Canons has been accepted by the Journal of Eastern Christian Studies. The title and abstract are enclosed in the screenshot.

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Sophia Dege-Müller @sophiademue.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

There is a scribal feature common to several religious traditions - to write the name of the devil/shaytan/diyablos upside down. I mentioned this for the Ethiopian&Eritrean tradition in my PhD thesis - here its ዲያብሎስ - Diyablos

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AaronM @aaronm.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Last week the #Vatican added 85 #Manuscripts www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025... They include more Sistine diaries and 17th C papal letters, a Martyrology/Rule in Bari-type Beneventan, a pile of Ge'ez liturgy, many Humanist classics, incl. Bruni translations, and more! #MedievalSky #Skystorians

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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 11 of 2025

The Vatican added eighty-five manuscripts this week to their online repository, including two each on both Saturday and Sunday. Per recent trends, the largest number came from Barb.lat, which contrib...

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Sophia Dege-Müller @sophiademue.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

news from Tigray are not good 🤨 This will only mean more suffering for the people

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Jürgen Zimmerer @juergenzimmerer.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Deutschland im Wissenschaftsfreiheitsindex nicht mehr unter den TOP 10. Das sollte alle alarmieren, die für die plurale Demokratie eintreten. 👉Es giit auch, imho, die Ampel, insbesondere Stark Watzinger hat dem Wissenschaftsstandort D schweren Schaden zugefügt. /2 www.jmwiarda.de/2025/03/13/n...

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"Nicht mehr internationale Spitze"

Jedes Jahr wird weltweit überprüft, wie frei Wissenschaftler arbeiten können. Jetzt ist die Bundesrepublik beim "Academic Freedom Index" aus der Spitzengruppe gefallen. Ein Gespräch mit der Politikwis...

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