Annette Yoshiko Reed

🚨🚨TT job in Greek or Roman Art History at Temple, specialty in archaeology and/or emerging technologies and ethical issues related to collections. 🚨 🚨 tyler.temple.edu/about-tyler/...
#AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics 🏺

University of Michigan University of Michigan is one of the top universities of the world, a public institution of higher learning, fostering excellence in research. U-M provides outstanding undergraduate, graduate and prof...

Coming up this Thursday, October 30, 6:30PM at the PSCO:

A (👻seasonally-appropriate👻) talk by me:

"Haunting Houses: Property as Evidence for the Unseen in Late Ancient Christianity"

There's a Zoom if you're interested---write me at emuehlbe at umich.edu and I'll shoot you the link!

Teaching the Codex Teaching the Codex is an interdisciplinary project on the teaching of palaeography and codicology.

These "Teaching the Codex" blog posts introducing collation formulas from Dr. Sian Witherden @sianwitherden.bsky.social
have particularly good illustrations that make it clear for students learning about it for the first time. 📜
teachingthecodex.com/author/teach...

HISTORY AND THEORY AND PHILOLOGY NOW: TOGETHER IN THEORY In English-speaking academe, philology has virtually disappeared as a defined discipline, although its traditional array of skills and techniques for reading, editing, and interpreting texts are indi...

What’s better than Nancy Partner in History & Theory reflecting on Philology? Open access too! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Thanks for articulating this so clearly; I feel the same, and I really wish that Rabbi Cosgrove et alia would speak up to counter the dark purposes to which their (no doubt sincerely held) concerns have been put…

Arthur Waskow, 92, Influential Rabbi and Activist for Social Justice, Dies

“What is the holiest part of a tallit? It’s the fringes. Those that are on the fringes in a committed way bring a sacred aspect to Judaism.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...

This fits well with my strongly held belief that academic awards, promotion to tenure, etc, should come with big shiny boxing-style championship belts

Headline from The Atlantic: How Teacher Evaluations Broke the University: "We gave them all As, and they gave us all fives" by Rose Horowitch (the link below is to a nonpaywalled version)

"But maximizing teacher ratings is very different from providing quality instruction. In fact, those aims are largely opposed."

archive.ph/Hap5C

Arthur Waskow, pioneering social justice rabbi, dies (RNS) — He earned a reputation as a radical on the forefront of movements for equality and justice. Many thought of him as a prophet.

He earned a reputation as a radical on the forefront of movements for equality and justice. Many thought of him as a prophet.
religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...

(3) Simcha Gross in HTR on “Does an Arrow a Day Keep Satan Away? Late Antique Magical Subtexts in Babylonian Rabbinic Narratives” www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @simchagross.bsky.social

(2) Moulie Vidas in HTR on “The Making of the Rabbi-Scholar in Late Ancient Palestine: Torah Study and Its Others in the Yerushalmi” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Open Access Cornucopia for scholars of late antique Judaism today! (1) William Smelik, “A New Aramaic Fragment of Toledot Yeshu as Targum Yerushalmi Isaiah 66.17” in Aramaic Studies = brill.com/view/journal... +

This is gone now. The East Wing lobby two years ago.

TCU to end stand-alone departments focused on women and gender, race and ethnic studies Officials said a merger into the English department better uses resources. Faculty fear it was politically motivated, which TCU denies.

TCU to end stand-alone departments focused on women and gender, race and ethnic studies fortworthreport.org/2025/10/22/t...

The Wayback Machine’s snapshots of news homepages plummet after a “breakdown” in archiving projects Between May and October 2025, homepage snapshots fell by 87% across 100 news publications.

The Wayback Machine’s snapshots of news homepages have dropped off in recent months. Our analysis shows that since May 16, the number of captures available for 100 top news sites declined by 87%.

@hanaatameez.bsky.social and I report for @niemanlab.org.
www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/the-...

An Anonymous Syriac Medical Compendium “Many medical works from antiquity were translated into Syriac and transmitted through the...”

Medical texts were transmitted in various forms in #Syriac literature well into the modern period—for example, manuscript DFM 00696, located in Iraq.

Take a closer look with Dr. James Walters, lead cataloger of Eastern Christian collections at HMML from 2020 to 2024: hmml.org/stories/seri...

your higher ed thread of the day (and while the extreme splashiness of UNC's choices may not be replicated in other schools the incentives-from-nowhere certainly are)

Jewish Studies director replacement ‘unprecedented,’ students and faculty say Dean Rick Van Kooten later held a nomination process one faculty member called “symbolic.”

This is a really bad sign for Jewish Studies as an academic field, and if we do not stand up against this, we will not maintain our integrity as a discipline. www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

Opened palimpsest codex (Leiden UL Or. 14236) with Syriac upper text and Armenian undertext. The upper text is written in black and red ink and decorated braided band patterns. There's also a fragment with Arabic on it between the two pages of the opened codex.

Mind-numbing how many layers of history there can be to a single manuscript page: Syriac upper text (10th c.), Armenian undertext (pre-10th c.), Arabic material used for binding (11-12th c.?), Coptic foliation in the margin (date?), modern foliation at the bottom. Image: Leiden UL Or. 14236, link ⬇️

Single paper leaf from a medieval Quran set on a blue background. It has 9 lines of fully vocalised Arabic 'muhaqqaq' calligraphy from Sura 17 ('The Night Journey') in brown-black ink. Several holes in the paper reveal the blue background behind the page. A yellow Cambridge University Library label in the lower right corner reads "T-S Ar.41.119."

So with death of academic twitter and academia. edu, I have several things (I hesitate to say "publications") that don't really live anywhere. I'll be sharing them here for now, starting with this old thread about Quran manuscripts found in a synagogue in Cairo:
threadreaderapp.com/thread/15519...

CAN HISTORY ABSOLVE? CAN HISTORY JUDGE? Appealing to history, rather than to God, to provide an ultimate judgment about human actions can have a justificatory or consolatory function. The former grants proleptic absolution for acts that ma...

“Can History Absolve? Can History Judge?” Martin Jay in History and Theory - OPEN ACCESS :)

Counterpoint | Minnesota humanities graduates thrive in meaningful careers "The stereotype of the underemployed history major is simply not true," professor Andrea Kaston Tange writes.

My latest: "Numerous studies show that majors in the humanities—typically, in departments of English, history, philosophy, religious studies, classics and languages—lead students to employment and life satisfaction outcomes as positive as those for majors traditionally championed as 'practical.'”

Yikes - hadn’t thought of that but bet you’re right

NAPS! Call for papers!

13 (!!) amazing looking thematic sessions to apply to, plus the general call for papers!

www.patristics.org/annual-meeti...

Science and religion folks: Check out this job posting at one of the most storied religious studies departments in the country--and share with our junior colleagues!

unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

I will miss the event but just got the book in the mail and SO excited to read

In the Boston area? Check out Jessica's talk. She is one of the leading experts on Jews and archaeology in Rome. Her new book "A Jewish Archaeology: The Christian Discovery of Jewish Catacombs in Rome" (Brill, 2025) is out now!

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

They're cutting religious studies programs so everyone can study tech, just when the tech world increasingly demands religious studies education to understand it.