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saying "lips" when I mean "two languages"

Do you want to come through tonight? I’m getting some people together to forget a number of things in common

Other than weather what has ever been inclement

I wonder if the old guard Oxbridge philologists pronounced “etc” with the proper Latin et KETera

* spelled, sorry, my mind is with the sensorium…

Wish I could take this wow

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!

Me on the right

(Jewish lit theory guy seeing a Christmas tree for the first time) wow. Dickensian

poetic description of a bilingual manuscript from a lecture today: “naturally the Latin begins where the Hebrew ends”

Announcing my Jewishness by being the only guy in class to defend Freud

Becoming Arab: The Formation of Arab Identity in the Medieval Middle East by Yossef Rapoport. How late medieval Middle Eastern peasants adopted Arab cultural identities and formed village clans.

How late medieval Middle Eastern peasants adopted Arab cultural identities and formed village clans.

Becoming Arab by Yossef Rapoport arrives next week on 18 November (13 Jan UK pub).

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#History

A magical text written in the 16th century on the previously blank margin of an earlier liturgical manuscript. Part of the original liturgical text can be seen at the bottom of the leaf. The leaf would originally have been part of the outer margin of a large leaf but has been rotated 90 degrees clockwise.

Just found out about this amazing example of #manuscript #recycling . The whole manuscript is made up from the margins of an earlier liturgical manuscript, cut out and rearranged (hence the unusual format), the (mostly) blank margins then used to copy various magical texts in the mid 16th century.

This is more of a sneeze than a question. This is more of a yawn than a question. Hi thanks for your talk. This is more of a threat than a question

The future is satmar

Roommate listening to Oppenheimer soundtrack in the shower

Medieval angel roof boss

"Jonah and the Whale", Folio Probably from a Jami al-Tavarikh (Compendium of Chronicles)

Persia, c. 1400

(Met Museum)

Oh, you want to study Hebrew manuscripts? Get ready to do regression analysis on the distribution of Chinese potsherds in 7th century Oman buddy

Graduate education at its best follows a kind of dream logic, and at its worst the logic of a paranoid conspiracy theorist. The rules of association in either case are functionally the same

Getting confused and wishing the hasidim an Eid Mubarak

9th century rabbi described posthumously by his students as "accustomed to amulets and whispers, and similar things"

55 EARTHEN CAULDRONS 55 COPPER POTS 55 ANDALUSI ROBES 55 RAW ANDALUSI CLOTHS 100 CLAY LAMPS 100 BAHARS OF SANDALWOOD 100 MANNS OF SILK 100 DINARS OF SILVER 100 SHEETS OF PAPER 55 BAHARS OF IRON 55 DAMASCENE SWORDS 55 BAHARS OF PEPPER 55 BAHARS OF CARDAMOM 155 BETEL NUTS

Medieval lead cross

Earliest example of a lead funerary cross from pre-Conquest England: “On the 11th March 1063 departed out of this life Wlfmaeg, sister of Wlfric the Abbot”. St Augustine’s, Canterbury.

Not only does the name Yaḥyā occur in the Geniza letters, so does the Berber equivalent Yedder, in a letter dated 1038 AD - although not in a context that would tell us the bearer's religion.

geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents...

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regularly putting "journal 2 pages" and "read novel" on my to-do list to ensure I maintain a relationship with my soul over the next six years

the use of the phrase "exotic eastern landscapes" re: a memoir by Edward Said has to be intentionally ironic right

Impossible to go to LA without feeling like the Woody Allen character in Annie Hall

studying a language feels so good when you finally make it to the body horror unit