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PhD Student at KU Leuven in Syriac and Christian Arabic studies
Call for applications for a position as Assistant Professor of Religion in Early Christianity at Princeton University
puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...
Postdoc opportunity at the University of Helsinki for a period of 2 years for the research project "Jeremiah for the 21st Century" (PI: Dr. Miika Tucker):
- The Peshitta version of Jeremiah
- Textual criticism of the Book of Jeremiah
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
The Beauty and Value of Eastern Bilingual Manuscripts of the Bible by a (brilliant!) KU Leuven colleague Maxime Maleux
alongthesilkroad.com/2025/09/12/t...
Armenian garshuni, i.e., Armenian written in Syriac script
Vat. sir. 544, f. 9v-12v
digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat...
It is always fascinating for me to stumble upon unexpected things in Syriac manuscripts!
L'UCLouvain ouvre un poste académique à temps plein en Exégèse biblique et extrabiblique
jobs.uclouvain.be/PersonnelAca...
Post-Doctoral Position in Late Antique Syriac Literature at KU Leuven
www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
5-year postdoc position in Syriac studies
‘Gesius’ Commentaries on Galen: Recovering lost works through a mixed-method approach ’
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
For those interested in Bar Ṣalībī, a collective volume edited by Bert Jacobs, Herman Teule and Joseph Verheyden was published recently by Brill in the series "Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity"
"Dionysius bar Ṣalībī: Guardian of the Syriac Orthodox Tradition"
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An interesting article about the language practices of Melkite Christians navigating between Greek, Syriac and Arabic. This article presents several contextualized examples of manuscripts
www.ku.de/thf/fachgebi...
Come study with us! Fully-funded Ph.D. scholarship opportunity to work on the Late Antique translation of texts.
www.acu.edu.au/research-and...
A nice drawing in this manuscript of Bar Hebraeus from 1810
MS Rendel Harris 59, fol. 86v
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Thanks to Herman Teule, the Maurits Sabbe Library has recently acquired 11 new manuscripts in Syriac and Arabic, see theo.kuleuven.be/apps/press/t...
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There is also a fragment of a Syriac Maronite manuscript in the Special Collections, that I identified in June 2023 as an extract from the Vespers of Wednesday in the Maronite Office Hours: x.com/SpColl_KULeu...
09.07.2025 09:11 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I had organized a little exhibition of 3 uncatalogued Syriac Melkite manuscripts back in March 2024:
theo.kuleuven.be/apps/press/t...
Exhibition of 15 Syriac manuscripts at KU Leuven on Thursday 11 September 2025 at 4 PM at the Maurits Sabbe Library in Leuven: "Treasures from the East: Syriac Manuscripts in the Collection of the Maurits Sabbe Library"
Registration: bib.kuleuven.be/msb/over/nie...
Post-doc position for a Syriacist in the Frankfurt-Leuven Project “Commentary on the Ecclesiastical History of John of Ephesus.”
Deadline for applications: 23 July 2025
Position is to be filled as of 1 October 2025 for a period of 36 months.
www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794849/FB0...
It was my first experience doing such a podcast in English. It was improvised and I realize that the contents and my English could have been better but this was a great experience for me!
Many thanks to Nunzia Di Rienzo and Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent for the invitation!
If you want to listen to me speak about Turoyo Neo-Aramaic for about 20 min in English, listen to this podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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A new Turoyo (Surayt) - Dutch / Dutch - Turoyo lexicon!
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My presentation "Hagiography in Ṭuroyo as a part of the local history of Ṭur ʿAbdīn" at the "Symposium on Syriac Saints: Lives, Commemoration, and Memory" at Marquette University (Milwaukee WI, April 10-12, 2025)
youtu.be/I1Tnpw81CS8?...
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"Ware Herder": A documentary film about the life of the late Mor Julius Yeshu Çiçek, former metropolitan of the Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Central Europe
These traces can reveal the Syriac origin of some Christian Arabic texts
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"Syriacisms in Arabic versions of the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Symbol". The aim of my presentation was to show, through an example, that despite the Arabization of Syriac Christians, traces of their Syriac heritage can still be found in their Arabic texts
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Next week in Palermo!
20.03.2025 11:51 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1Thank you @mara-nicosia.bsky.social !
26.02.2025 10:31 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Don't miss our book launch tomorrow!
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I recently acquired a two-volume work containing a non-critical edition of the 70 Syriac Orthodox preserved anaphoras listed by Patriarch Afrem Barṣawm in his “Scattered Pearls”. This collection offers a fascinating glimpse into the richness of the Syriac liturgical tradition!
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L’Académie Belge pour l’Étude des Langues Anciennes et Orientales (ABELAO) a le plaisir de vous inviter à son école d’été, qui se tiendra à Louvain-la-Neuve du 29 juillet au 8 août.
Plus de détails et inscriptions sur www.abelao.eu
Yes, I commented on his FB post and sent him this: m.youtube.com/watch?v=lnm7...
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A call for proposals of the NWO for 1 Postdoc in Coptic Orthodox Christianity in Egypt and the Nile Valley in the field of (art) history and archaeology
www.nwo.nl/en/calls/van...
