Next week! With Christine Shepardson (The University of Tennessee Knoxville) and @philipforness.bsky.social (KU Leuven)!
Next Thu 28 May, 10 AM
Karolina Tomczyszyn (KULeuven)
•Approved Teachers and Insignificant Rhetoricians: Literary Curation in the Letters of Jacob of Edessa, George, bishop of the Arabs, and John of Litarb•
Don't forget to register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social to receive the Zoom link
Save the date!
Thursday 4 June at 4PM CET
Book in the Spotlight: Christine Shepardson: A Memory of Violence: Syriac Christianity and the Radicalization of Religious Difference in Late Antiquity (University of California Press, 2026)
Respondent will be Philip Forness (KULeuven).
TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar
TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar
TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar
There is a new, open access 🚨 📖 book tracing the global history of Zoroastrianism from antiquity (6th century BCE-7th century CE) to the Middle Ages—and then into modernity. My friend & top Manichaeism scholar @babelalexandria.bsky.social has a chapter as well. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...
Although Zoroastrians in the contemporary world are numerically few – estimated recently at less than 150,000 across the globe – their ancient Iranian ancestors
Voor een gezelschap met em. hoogleraar Syrisch Gerrit Reinink zochten we Syrische boeken. Daarbij kwam deze parel tevoorschijn. Dit bandje bevat een uitgave uit 1555 van de evangeliën in het klassiek West-Syrisch. Het Serta-schrift is zo mooi dat het in een expositie over Letterkunst komt. (2/3)
Sarah E. Bond
Looking forward to reading about satanic partridges..
New special issue on paradoxography and knowledge production in Studies in Late Antiquity. Thank you @monikaamsler.bsky.social for your dedication!
