Andy Hilkens
@andyhilkens.bsky.social
Historian & philologist. Syro-Armenian studies. Lecturer in Coptic & Postdoc Generative Authority: The Followers of the Apostles as Literary Characters (UniVie) Co-host @tetraseminar.bsky.social Co-editor Eastern Christian Cultures in Contact (Brepols)
In case you missed it! The recording of So Miyagawa's paper is now online on our YouTube channel! www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiEf...
TeTra | So Miyagawa "Examining the Apocalypse of Elijah"
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Tomorrow!
TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar@tetraseminar.bsky.social · 3w agoWe continue next Thursday 23 July at 10 AM, with Mehdy Shaddel (Cambridge/Liège)! The topic of his paper is •ʿUmar II as Reformer: The Social and Fiscal Backdrop to His Edicts)• If you are interested in attending and are not yet on the TeTra mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social!
Next week!
TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar@tetraseminar.bsky.social · 3w agoWe continue next Thursday 23 July at 10 AM, with Mehdy Shaddel (Cambridge/Liège)! The topic of his paper is •ʿUmar II as Reformer: The Social and Fiscal Backdrop to His Edicts)• If you are interested in attending and are not yet on the TeTra mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social!
Syriac in an Armenian animation about the origins of Armenian literature www.youtube.com/watch?v=liuU...
This might be my favourite ever episode. Absolutely insane.
Game Changer@gamechanger.dropout.tv · 3w ago🚨 A new episode of Game Changer is out now on Dropout — featuring players: Demi Adejuyigbe, Anna Garcia, Catherine McCafferty, Ify Nwadiwe, Hannah Pilkes, Zach Reino, and Jiavani! 🍚
Tomorrow at 4PM!
TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar@tetraseminar.bsky.social · last mo.TeTra continues during the summer! Next Thursday 9 July at 4PM CET @somiyagawa.bsky.social (University of Tsukuba) will speak about the Coptic Apocalypse of Elijah. If you are not yet on our mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social to receive the Zoom link.
TeTra continues during the summer! Next Thursday 9 July at 4PM CET @somiyagawa.bsky.social (University of Tsukuba) will speak about the Coptic Apocalypse of Elijah. If you are not yet on our mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social to receive the Zoom link.
These days I see a worrying number of children participating in traffic while not even looking up from their phones. Please, parents, educate your children, and educate yourselves while you're at it. #nophonesintraffic
Next Thursday 18 June at 10 AM CET! Irene Tinti (Florence) •Debates in the Margins: Tracing Interconfessional Relations through the Lens of Medieval Armenian Manuscripts• If you want to receive the Zoom link and are not yet on our mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social
Tomorrow, with William M. Barton! @krithemp.bsky.social
TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar@tetraseminar.bsky.social · 2mo agoNext Thursday 11 June, 10 AM! William M. Barton (Universität Innsbruck) •Byzantine Letters in Golden-Age Spain: On Vicente Mariner’s translation of Theophylact Achridensis’ Correspondence• Image, BNE, MS 9813, f. 673r
For those who missed Thursday's Book in the Spotlight, here is the recording! Great conversation between Christine Shepardson, the author of A Memory of Violence: Syriac Christianity and the Radicalization of Religious DIfference in Late Antiquity, and @philipforness.bsky.social!
TeTra | Book in the Spotlight: Christine Shepardson, A Memory of Violence (2026)
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Next Thursday 11 June, 10 AM! William M. Barton (Universität Innsbruck) •Byzantine Letters in Golden-Age Spain: On Vicente Mariner’s translation of Theophylact Achridensis’ Correspondence• Image, BNE, MS 9813, f. 673r
As job titles go it can't get much better than this.
Museums + Heritage@museumsandheritage.com · 2mo agoJOB POST ALERT Role: Head of Stonehenge at English Heritage Location: Stonehenge Salary: Salary from £64,189 p.a. Find out more: https://museumsandheritage.com/advisor/all-jobs/english-heritage-head-of-stonehenge/
Come work with the CLAIM team in the new ERC project in Vienna! Apply here: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Postdoct... Details CLAIM.univie.ac.at/ @erc.europa.eu | @univie.ac.at | @etf-univienna.bsky.social
Since we cannot seem to rely on any governments for this and the problem certainly will not solve itself, please tell someone this week to stop using their phone while in traffic. It saves lives. #nophonesintraffic
Iain Gardner has been doing fantastic work making Manichaean texts more accessible... global.oup.com/academic/pro...
an Ottoman Lord’s Prayer: a thread. so i recently found out—i can’t remember from whom, but if it was one of you please let me know!—that there is a community of Turkish-speaking Chaldean Catholics in Kirkuk, Iraq, who continue to use Ottoman Turkish as a liturgical language. 1/
If you missed Thursday's paper by Karolina Tomczyszyn (KU Leuven), the recording is now on our YouTube channel youtu.be/AfxOpW8PqFA
TeTra | Karolina Tomczyszyn "Literary Curation in the Letters of Jacob of Edessa"
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Wishing they did reprints of Robert Thomson's translations of the Armenian histories. It is impossible to find a copy of Lazar P'arpec'i for example.
Next week! With Christine Shepardson (The University of Tennessee Knoxville) and @philipforness.bsky.social (KU Leuven)!
TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar@tetraseminar.bsky.social · 3mo agoSave 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).
Als er over vijftig jaar nog geesteswetenschappers zijn, en als zij zich afvragen hoe de afbraak van de letteren is verlopen, hebben zij aan de reactie van het Nijmeegse College van Bestuur op het aftreden van Paula Fikkert als decaan Letteren, een goede bron. neerlandistiek.nl/2026/05/paula/
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Als er over vijftig jaar nog geesteswetenschappers zijn, en als zij zich afvragen hoe de afbraak van de letteren is verlopen, hebben zij aan de reactie van het Nijmeegse College van Bestuur op het …
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Tomorrow!
TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar@tetraseminar.bsky.social · 3mo agoNext 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
Archaeologists in Turkey uncovered one of the oldest and best-preserved images of Jesus ever found: a 3rd-century fresco showing Christ as the “Good Shepherd.” The discovery in ancient Iznik offers rare insight into early Christianity and Roman-era beliefs
Spectacular archaeological finds in Turkey shed new light on origins of Christianity
The remarkable discoveries include the best-preserved early image of Jesus discovered near the Turkish city of Iznik
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I found a bizarre, unidentifiable mythical creature in the medieval manuscript Kitāb al-Bulhān—the most peculiar I've ever seen.
