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•
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Het bijzondere verhaal van Elio Atto die mij en vele anderen altijd hartelijk ontving in Mor Efrem www.trouw.nl/verdieping/a...
De zachtaardige abt Eliyo Atto, een van de grondleggers van het Mor Ephrem-klooster in Twente, was een vriend van jongeren, een broer voor ouderen en een vaderlijke leraar.
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)
Next week! With Christine Shepardson (The University of Tennessee Knoxville) and @philipforness.bsky.social (KU Leuven)!
..and to hearing about demonic ducks!
Our team at KU Leuven is organizing a Workshop on Letters & Epistolary Culture in Syriac Christianity at the Oxford Patristic Studies Conference (2–6 Aug 2027). We will be happy to receive proposals for papers by 30 June 2026 ([email protected]). Details in the attached file.
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...
Heleen Murre-van den Berg
TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar
TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar
Historici vertellen
Although Zoroastrians in the contemporary world are numerically few – estimated recently at less than 150,000 across the globe – their ancient Iranian ancestors
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Looking forward to reading about satanic partridges..
Free access link to my own contribution - on why Gregory of Nyssa has quite so much to say about cinnamon: online.ucpress.edu/SLA/article/...
Next Thursday 7 May we are hosting a paper by Rachael Banes (IMAFO, ÖAW) who will be speaking about a mysterious inscription
•A Fowl Demon? The "Demonic Duck" Graffito at Didyma in its wider Epigraphic Landscape•
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Marion Pragt
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).
The Homilies on the Song of Songs by the late antique Christian author Gregory of Nyssa are commonly studied for their spiritual interpretations and mystical theology. At the same time, his Homilies a...
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New special issue on paradoxography and knowledge production in Studies in Late Antiquity. Thank you @monikaamsler.bsky.social for your dedication!
