Last weeks I worked on a piece for Collecting Religion, edited by @matthew-hayes.bsky.social and @secondhandsacred.bsky.social - a great way to think about project endings and the sorting out of material and digital collections that come with it
collectingreligion.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/e...
Digitization & cataloging is complete for the collection of the Armenian Church, Diocese of Aleppo: 174 manuscripts relocated from the Armenian Holy Forty Martyr’s Church in Aleppo. A rare survival from one of the most volatile centers of #Armenian Christianity.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/49V9yXa
Useful study aids at the end of the manuscript: division of ‘Philosophia’; and a 'T-O' map of the world
BL Harley 2799; 'The Arnstein Bible', Job to Revelation; c.1172 CE; Germany, W.; f.241v @blmedieval.bsky.social
En dat kan ook nog eens op heel veel plekken in het land - onder andere in nijmegen: www.ru.nl/over-ons/org...
Gisteren stond ik namens het ICLON (lerarenopleiding) op de Bachelor Open dag van de @unileiden.bsky.social.
Er liepen een vader en zoon stralend op mij af.
- Kunt u ons helpen? We willen allebei leraar worden!
Vader kan nu in september bij ons starten, zijn zoon gaat na zijn master starten!
Israeli evacuation order over the entirety of Beirut’s southern suburbs. The evacuation order is a first of its kind and covers 22.4 km², compared to Beirut’s municipal area of about 20 km²
baydoun.nl
This looks great!
Just 6 days left to apply! Deadline: 8 March. Since this came up in some of the inquiries I've received: we can be flexible with the start date (ideally June 15), and there is no requirement to learn Dutch (whew!)
Orly Noy, on Netanyahu:
“No Israeli leader has so deeply understood the collective psyche of Jewish Israeli society . A society that seems capable of feeling its own pulse only in war and destruction; that, if it is not attacking, destroying, and killing, is not entirely certain that it exists.”
There is a vacancy in our project 'Pages of Prayer: The Ecosystem of Vernacular Prayer Books in the Late Medieval Low Countries, c. 1380-1550' for a junior or postdoctoral researcher! #medievalsky
careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Junior-R...
Great thread on scribal practices! Looking forward to read the article
Available now in Open Access — free to browse and download. I’m thrilled that this book is finally seeing the light of day. It’s been quite the journey. Many thanks to all the friends and colleagues who helped me along the way!
Quite the scoop by Omer Benjakob, confirming what many of us know.
Palestinianism is opposed to Christianity': FARA filings reveal
Israel's influence campaigns in MAGA country USA
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Join us next Thursday 26 Feb at 10 AM CET for a paper by Maria S. Thomas (UniVie) on the manuscript production of the Syriac Orthodox monastery of Mary Magdalene in Jerusalem in the twelfth century!
If you are not yet on our mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social
Pope Leo: “We perceive in the ashes imposed on us the weight of a world that is ablaze, of entire cities destroyed by war. This is also reflected in the ashes of international law and justice among peoples, the ashes of entire ecosystems and harmony among peoples, the ashes of critical thinking.”
🔭 🧪 #EduSky
🇫🇷 Durée du jour en fonction de la date et de la latitude.
🇬🇧 Length of the day, according to the date and latitude.
#Python
Script here:
www.astrolabe-science.fr/duree-du-jour/
Japanese Scholar Who Apologized to Comfort Women Victims Dies at 88
en.sedaily.com/politics/202...
The Scholten Photographic Collection (NINO) comprises ca. 22,000 original photographs that Frank Scholten took on his travels through the Middle East in 1920-1923. Some of his pictures have been used in the latest issue of the magazine ZEIT GESCHICHTE, about the history of the conflict in Palestine.
Obituary of Takamitsu Muraoka (1938-2026) by Septuagint scholar William A. Ross: williamaross.com/2026/02/11/i...
Thank you for sharing - so sorry to hear this
Great thread!
Aramaic influence perhaps?
Met veel verdriet deel ik dat dierbare collega Peter Nissen, historicus van het christendom, afgelopen vrijdag overleden is. Een mooi bericht over zijn leven vond ik hier: kro-ncrv.nl/peter-nissen...
This Super Bowl Sunday, I’d like to introduce you all to the magical curse bowls used in Upper Mesopotamia and Syria in late antiquity. Written in Mandaic (as here) or Syriac Aramaic, they trap demons who trespass on a household by sucking them in with spiraling spells to the center of the bowl.
oooh we are posting super bowls?
As a specialist in Islamic ceramics *cracks knuckles* I present this fabulous 11th c. lustre painted bowl from Fatimid Cairo depicting a Coptic priest. Its white glaze imitates Chinese porcelain and the lustre technique was invented in Iraq a century earlier.
My favourite golden initial 'P' with bird's head
BnF Latin 9451; The 'Purple Lectionary'; c.800 CE: North Italy (Verona or Monza); f.100v @gallicabnf.bsky.social
We are excited to offer a new funding opportunity for mid-career to senior researchers! NINO Incoming Senior Fellowships and NINO Outgoing Senior Fellowships. Upcoming deadline for applications: 15 February 2026. More info in this thread🧵
De kop lijkt me een understatement, maar wel een boeiend verhaal over een fascinerende roman uit de jaren twintig van de 20ste eeuw - @uitgjurgenmaas.bsky.social
