Part of this has to do with the fact that we are reading a text likely translated from Greek! GThomas/corpus-specific vocab, that is! But it gives me a great idea to share as an extra resource Egyptian body part words! Anthropology + ancient languages is my favorite, favorite thing.
23.07.2025 21:02 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
fun find!
08.07.2025 19:45 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The Pearlsong β Harvard University Press
The Pearlsong is an ancient poem that recounts the story of a Parthian prince sent by his parents on a mission to Egypt to retrieve a pearl from the clutches of a giant serpent. Along the way, the pri...
It's publication day for the Pearlsong! Syriac and two Greek texts, each w/ Eng. tr., + glossaries and commentary.
Just $40! The paper, cover & jacket, and printing are fabulous!
If you read it, I hope you have as much fun with it as I did writing it!
08.07.2025 12:59 β π 37 π 13 π¬ 3 π 2
Based on your bio interests, I think you will love it!
07.07.2025 08:30 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
So kind! Thank you, friend!
07.07.2025 08:29 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Learning Coptic Through the Gospel of Thomas
It's not too late to sign up for this summer Coptic course!
www.religiondepartment.com/coptic
Begins July 8th. Available Asynch. or Synch.
Lectures live Tuesdays at 10:00am Atlanta/EDT
(3:00pm London/BST, 4:00pm Amsterdam/Zurich/CEST, 5:00pm Cairo/EEST, and 12:00am July 9th Australia/AEST).
06.07.2025 09:21 β π 21 π 17 π¬ 0 π 3
Excited to have you!
06.07.2025 16:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Learning Coptic Through the Gospel of Thomas
It's not too late to sign up for this summer Coptic course!
www.religiondepartment.com/coptic
Begins July 8th. Available Asynch. or Synch.
Lectures live Tuesdays at 10:00am Atlanta/EDT
(3:00pm London/BST, 4:00pm Amsterdam/Zurich/CEST, 5:00pm Cairo/EEST, and 12:00am July 9th Australia/AEST).
06.07.2025 09:21 β π 21 π 17 π¬ 0 π 3
Starting in a few days on July 8!
05.07.2025 13:01 β π 8 π 9 π¬ 0 π 1
Thank you π
04.07.2025 12:27 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A text-based intro to Coptic later this summer. If you want to start learning Coptic, especially if you're into the Gospel of Thomas, check it out!
23.06.2025 13:07 β π 11 π 7 π¬ 0 π 0
It's the summer for starting Coptic!
19.06.2025 10:55 β π 2 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Learning Coptic Through the Gospel of Thomas
$175 for an 8-week Intro Coptic course! All learners welcome!
www.religiondepartment.com/coptic
19.06.2025 10:31 β π 7 π 4 π¬ 0 π 3
$175 for 8-week Coptic course focused on learning to read the Gospel of Thomas.
Access to weekly 90-minute lecture (available synchronous or asynch.), learning materials authored by me, and weekly office hours. #Coptic #DigitalPhilology #NagHammadi #Apocrypha #BiblicalStudies
13.06.2025 20:20 β π 36 π 22 π¬ 1 π 1
Learning Coptic Through the Gospel of Thomas
Absolutely ecstatic to announce that we here at Religion for Breakfast are offering an online Intro to Coptic class...using the Gospel of Thomas as the primary text! Taught by the amazing scholar of early Christianity Dr. Lydia Bremer-McCollum. Learn more here: www.religiondepartment.com/coptic
13.06.2025 11:36 β π 85 π 21 π¬ 2 π 7
Come learn Coptic an affordable cost! You will learn the basics of how to read and learn the language via a corpus-based approach. Come for the Gospel of Thomas! Stay for the more open access philology!
All learners welcome!
13.06.2025 12:07 β π 27 π 13 π¬ 2 π 2
New Books in Late Antiquity episode! Mike Motia interviews Stefanie Lenk about her book, Roman Identity and Lived Religion: Baptismal Art in Late Antiquity. newbooksnetwork.com/roman-identi...
10.06.2025 13:02 β π 17 π 7 π¬ 0 π 0
Guest Lecture Open Call
Be a Guest Lecturer for Religion for Breakfast Are you a scholar of religion with a passion for public engagement? Want to share your work with an enthusiastic, globally diverse audience thatβs hungry...
Are you a scholar of religion with a passion for public scholarship? Want to share your work with an enthusiastic, global audience hungry for deeper learning? Weβre inviting scholars to give lectures in a live Zoom series hosted by Religion for Breakfast. More here! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
04.06.2025 11:24 β π 50 π 27 π¬ 2 π 2
I mean always a safe bet to blame misogyny!
03.06.2025 12:43 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
this is so funny!
03.06.2025 12:41 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
πΊ Syriac reading group πΊ
β’ Wednesday, 11am-12 (UTC-4 / EST) on Zoom
β’ now reading the De Mundo (ps-Arist.)
β’ beginning Syriac students welcome
β’ contact me for link or more info
03.06.2025 10:56 β π 4 π 4 π¬ 2 π 0
Coptic Alphabet Animals
Compiled a list of Sahidic Coptic animal names to teach and review the alphabet and provide some pronunciation practice.π¦π«π¦π¦₯π¦πππ¦
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docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
02.06.2025 15:46 β π 10 π 7 π¬ 0 π 1
Congratulations! Very excited for you both! Hopefully the creatures are adjusting well!!
02.06.2025 20:07 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Coptic Alphabet Animals
Compiled a list of Sahidic Coptic animal names to teach and review the alphabet and provide some pronunciation practice.π¦π«π¦π¦₯π¦πππ¦
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docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
02.06.2025 15:46 β π 10 π 7 π¬ 0 π 1
was thinking of you when I found this word!! *honored*
01.06.2025 16:01 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
YouTube video by KOMO News
14 million bees escape after semi-truck spills load in Whatcom County
β²β²β²β²© β²β²Ο₯ β²β²β²β²β²± = "queen bee" in Sahidic.
(although literally, "mother of honey flies" which is much more Daenerys Targaryen imo)
++ Queen bees are also how they solved/re-hived the 250million bees that escaped in WA this week.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=--wv...)
01.06.2025 12:55 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1
Turkish cezve (Ψ¬Ψ²ΩΩ)
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Arabic /Η§aαΈwa/ Ψ¬Ψ°ΩΨ© "firebrand" (i.e. a stick with burning embers at one end)
31.05.2025 15:27 β π 9 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
EXACTLY! It puts me in such a weird position! If I were less in need of the $$$ or a bigger deal, I would walk away from the contract. (But also Coptic! It's my favorite thing to teach!)
31.05.2025 13:54 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
It this kind of shit that makes adjuncting not just demoralizing for the pay but to also your psyche.
31.05.2025 13:45 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Adjuncting online for an R1 this summer. I am supposed to start THIS Monday but the institution has failed to provide me with the final offer letter, access to institutional tech (including zoom, the classroom). The response so far = "that must be so stressful for you."
31.05.2025 13:45 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Historian: women, early 19C Dakota and Ojibwe country; Dir: Bright Institute @ Knox College; author, A Pedagogy of Kindness (https://bit.ly/OrderPoK); catherinedenial.org; https://redbrickagency.com/cate-denial/; posts my own; she/her; settler, Native land
Iβm an Associate Professor of Classics at Columbia University. I teach and study Latin, Roman stuff, book history stuff, and Iβm involved in our gen-ed literature course, Literature Humanities. Be cool
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Social and political philosophy, feminist philosophy, almost done with a book on the philosophy of Audre Lorde
Postdoc at Uni Hamburg
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former postdoc at Brown | still working on a book about John Noonan and the use of the ancient Mediterranean world in American abortion politics and law | labor solidarity forever πͺ
Passionate about archives, archaeology and the medieval past.
Visual & Intellectual culture| Manuscripts& Monasticism| Early Medieval Iberian & Continental History | PDRA Crafting Documents project, University of Oxford. William Golding Junior Research Fellow, Brasenose College.
Open University Classical Studies lecturer. Recovering Oxford don. Critical Ancient World Studies person. Podcast host @ Radio ReOrient. Childrenβs author by night.π πShe/her. Trying to move here from Twitter.
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Religion, Media Technologies, and Early America, teaching at the University of Vermont, PHD in American Religions from Princeton University
PhD; assistant professor of Roman history and literature; particularly enthusiastic about Roman religion and insults; never speak for my employer
Art historian, PhD candidate @VU Amsterdam
Medieval Syriac manuscripts, inscriptions, materiality, digital projects
Editor, Middle East @TheDigitalOrientalist
Interested in #Coptic #Ο―β²β²β²§β²£β²β²β²Μβ²β²β²β²
Collection of Coptic grammar resources in one handy place! https://coptic.wiki
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Biblical Hebrew nerd β‘ I love learning about all things Hebrew, Greek, linguistics, HB & LXX β‘ MDiv student β‘ Biblical Aramaic now in progress!
Translator - Interested in Semitic Languages - Historical Linguistics - Etymology - Church History - Biblical Languages - Childhood Trauma and Parenting - Loves C. S. Lewis and Wendell Berry - Enjoys playing Ultimate Frisbee and Scrabble.
Associate Professor in Religion and WGSS. I teach on race, gender, sexuality, religion, and ethics. My research focuses on intersex and trans justice. They/them. Wish I was paddle boarding.
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