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AJR is honored to host a review panel of Christine Luckritz Marquis’s book, Death of the Desert: Monastic Memory and the Loss of Egypt's Golden Age (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022). We begin with an essay from Ciara Mulcahy

Monastic Memory and the Loss of Egypt’s Golden Age — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW

Luckritz Marquis masterfully weaves together multi-layered narratives while simultaneously engaging with the lenses of memory, nostalgia, and race.

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My tiny thread yesterday is now a whole op-ed! A quick read, connecting Pope Leo's apology for colonialism and slavery to his warnings about AI — it's all related. Working with editor @mpgphd.bsky.social was an absolutely pleasure!

Religion Dispatches@religiondispatches.org · 2mo ago

the latest from RD: @roopikarisam.bsky.social on what makes Leo XIV's first encyclical so radical -- tracing AI back through histories of enslavement and exploitation, and repenting for the RCC's complicity in both religiondispatches.org/2026/05/26/l...

one of my favorite people wrote one of my favorite recent reads. can't recommend it enough!

Rhiannon Garth Jones@rhigarthjones.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The paperback version of ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME is coming out soon! And with an even more stunning cover 🥰

GenAut research trip | Our colleague Maria S. Thomas @dekayra.bsky.social at Deir al-Surian for manuscript work. Here are some photos!

Cairo peeps: I'm giving a talk for the CEDEJ and Institut français d’archéologie orientale - Ifao on May 10th. Join us if you can! www.ifao.egnet.net/recherche/ma...

This wonderful conference in Rome starts Wednesday! Looking forward to present some glimpses of my favourite biblical manuscript(s)!

The time has finally come: Here is the first volume of Julien Ogereau’s “Epigraphical Commentary on the New Testament,” focusing on 1 Thessalonians: available via Open Access and packed with new insights: www.mohrsiebeck.com/buch/1-thess... #epigraphy #1Thessalonians

Tomorrow!!!

TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar@tetraseminar.bsky.social · 4mo ago

April is a busy month for us! Next Thu 16 April at 10 AM CET, Michael Erdman (British Library) will deliver a research paper about two Ottoman and Armeno-Turkish silk production manuals! If you are not yet on our mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social to receive the Zoom link.

#NewPublication #OpenAccess #Syriac #ChristianEast www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...

GenAut research trip | A few snapshots from these weeks' manuscript work in Oxford and Cambridge.

We've launched the website for our 'Coptic in Manchester: Connecting Manuscripts and Communities' UKRI-funded project ('26–28) with @thejohnrylands.bsky.social ! Please share! sites.google.com/view/coptici...

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Reminder! We hope that you can join us tomorrow evening for Prof. Drpić's talk ! April 6 • 🕔 5:15 PM EST Attend either in-person on the sixth floor of Penn's Van Pelt Library, or remotely on Zoom. (See pennmaterialtexts.org for details.)

Penn Material Texts@pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This Monday, April 6, we welcome Ivan Drpić (UPenn), who will speak on “Painters at Play: The Excessive Epigraphy of a Late Byzantine Church.” 🕔 5:15 PM EST 📍At Van Pelt Library & on Zoom Full details at: pennmaterialtexts.org (Image: St. Merkourios, Church of the Virgin Peribleptos, Ohrid.)

Proofs day for A Workshop of Eloquence: A Collection of Gazan Literature from Late Antiquity! I'm grateful to be working with DAK University Press in Bethlehem and a Gazan Arabic translator to offer an introduction and selection of translated texts by, from, and about late ancient Gaza.

Tomorrow!

TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar@tetraseminar.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Please join us on Thursday 26 March at 10 am CET for the next TeTra talk by Julia Schwarzer (KU Leuven): "A Mischievous Manuscript or Infidel Rule Reimagined: Julian in Coptic Sources"

GenAut recording | Philipp Pilhofer, "The Circle of Barnabas: Generative Authority in Cypriot Hagiography" The online seminar: genaut.univie.ac.at?page_id=671

GenAut | Philipp Pilhofer "The Circle of Barnabas. Generative Authority in Cypriot Hagiography"

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Tomorrow ! GenAut online seminar | Philipp Pilhofer (Vienna), "The Circle of Barnabas. Generative Authority in Cypriot Hagiography" Tuesday, 24 March (10 AM CET). See you there! •Followers of the Apostles in Cultic Contexts• genaut.univie.ac.at

New release 📚 The Martyrdom of Polycarp: Translation, Introduction, and Commentary 📜 N. Clayton Croy's magnum opus provides a detailed introduction and a section-by-section commentary on the earliest, full-length narrative of an early Christian martyrdom. Read it here: brill.com/display/ti...

Rounding off this busy week, I’m looking forward to presenting this year’s Peake Lecture with my friend and colleague Samuel Hildebrandt tomorrow on our current research: ‘From Miriam to the Magdalene: Women Witnesses in the Bible and Beyond’ (no points for guessing which bit I’ll be covering!).

Please join us on Thursday 26 March at 10 am CET for the next TeTra talk by Julia Schwarzer (KU Leuven): "A Mischievous Manuscript or Infidel Rule Reimagined: Julian in Coptic Sources"

This has been out a little while but it only just landed on my doormat - containing a little chapter I wrote on my OGs (Deleuze and Guattari). Congratulations to the editors! 📘

This is great news for late antiquity: top journal turns full Open Access. Way to go, Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum! More info here: www.degruyterbrill.com/.../10.../za...

New article about Chalcedonian Armenians in eleventh-century Byzantium! Open Access: austriaca.at?arp=0x00416251

Check out "Miss Piggy and the Pretty Woman of Proverbs 11:22: Beauty, Animality, and Gender" by Anne Létourneau in Ask the Animals: Developing a Biblical Animal Hermeneutic edited by Arthur W. Walker-Jones, Suzanna R. Millar. buff.ly/USlwpnC #WomensHistorySBL26

🎉The first 3 books have now published in The Islamicate East series, edited by @arezouazad.bsky.social, Hugh Kennedy and Teresa Bernheimer🎉 @invisibleeast.bsky.social Find out more at edinburghuniversitypress.com/series-the-i...

So, here's the article I have out as of today and it's #OpenAccess. It deals with one of the earliest Christian Arabic scribal workshops in the Sinai monastery, where many of the mss produced there have been preserved to this day. In this 🧵 I do a quick rundown of the most important findings. 1/n

Since it's still Library Lovers' Month, you might as well expand your collection by learning about other collections!

If you're in Vienna next week, this is a very interesting conference.

The CLAIM ERC-CoG & GenAut FWF-START projects@receptionmatters.bsky.social · 5mo ago

GenAut talks | Andy Hilkens and Lewis Read, “A Constantinopolitan Synaxarion for Armenians: The Tawanac’uyc’ of Yovsep’.” •Christian Liturgy and Memory Practices from Medieval Iberia to Central Asia• Vienna, 5-6 March. @andyhilkens.bsky.social @lewread.bsky.social www.oeaw.ac.at/detail/veran...

#NewPublication #OpenAccess #ChristianEast #ManuscriptStudies #BookHistory #ArabicBible “Monastic Literature in Early Islamic Palestine and Sinai: Manuscripts, Scribes, Translators, Authors, and Later Readers”, COMSt Bulletin Special Issue, ed. by Adrian C. Pirtea

Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin 11, 2025

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