Senior Research Assistant (sic!), University of Bern. Rabbinic lit., ancient education, book production, the concept of the paradox, history of ideas.
Monika Amsler
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A special issue on Paradoxography and Late Antique Knowledge Production
has been published yesterday in Studies in Late Antiquity! With contributions by @berglund.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy @worldlyscribe.bsky.social and yours truly.
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With contributions by @zafulotus.bsky.social @mauat.bsky.social, Julie van Pelt, Barbara Crostini and yours truly.
New Testament scholars: this is a real zinger!
Here’s an open access link to my contribution that locates the program for the Huqoq Synagogue mosaic in the paradoxographic tradition and asks- why? online.ucpress.edu/SLA/article/...
Last week, I gave a guest lecture on Jewish-Arabic Bible translations. I began with a series of examples of their physical form to illustrate the diversity of the Arabic Bible. I’m sharing the images here for your viewing pleasure in this thread, along with a few notes. 1/n
Studies in Late Antiquity Vol. 10, No. 2 (2026) online.ucpress.edu/SLA/issue/10/2 @ucpress.bsky.social Paradoxography and Late Antique Knowledge Production
@monikaamsler.bsky.social @worldlyscribe.bsky.social @berglund.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy
📣Join us for the 3rd History of Knowledge Conference, "Decentering the History of Knowledge"! The event will take place in Utrecht on 25-27 August 2027.
📝A call for papers will follow in Fall 2026. For more information:
1) Register with "[email protected]"
2) Visit: www.uu.nl/en/news/thir....
new Element in Religion in Late Antiquity coming your way in August from the one and only Virginia Burrus!
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
The thematic section of Judaica on "Nature Miracles and Paradoxography in Biblical Reception of the First Centuries CE" has been published!
For the open-access issue go to:
judaica.ch/thematic-sec...
For those interested more generally in Late Antiquity, a special issue in SLA will soon follow!
