I am excited to share my new publication "The Life of Susanna in the Light of Beta Israel Manuscript Tradition" which just appeared in this cool new book! www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/book/inte...

#NewPublication 👀 #OpenAccess #EthiopicBible #Patristics @sophiademue.bsky.social "The Ethiopic Version of the Introduction to the Psalms by Eusebius of Caesarea (CAe 6719): Preliminary Remarks on its Manuscript Transmission and Vorlage"

Starting Grant für @sophiademue.bsky.social: Die Expertin für äthiopische Handschriften erhält vom @erc.europa.eu 2,5 Millionen Euro – eine Million Euro mehr als bisherige Preisträgerinnen und Preisträger. Sie erforscht Schriftstücke äthiopischer Juden, die Ende des 20. Jh. nach Israel emigrierten.

Was definiert eine religiöse Handschrift?

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🥳 I am excited and through the moon to be part of this year's @erc.europa.eu Starting grant winners! 🤩 Time to celebrate! Read a first description here www.uni-hamburg.de/newsroom/pre... Congratulations to all winners 🍾

European Research Council (ERC)@erc.europa.eu · 4w ago

📣 Good news! 📣 Results of the ERC 2026 Starting Grant call are out! Funding worth a total of €705 million will go to 421 early-career researchers across Europe. Discover who, what and where 👉 link.europa.eu/9M3MmN 🧪 #ERCStG #FrontierResearch #HorizonEurope 🇪🇺 @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu

Symbolbild deutsche Wissenschaftsförderung.

Extremely happy to share the link for my open access book: www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/ddo/artikel/... write me for an English version (deepl), or practice your German!

Sophia Dege-Müller@sophiademue.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Excited to share my book!! What a year, totally wild. Will be available in open access soon www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/Der_Kampf_de...

In Äthiopien liegt die Müttersterblichkeit mehr als 150-mal höher als in Deutschland. Ein mit 30.000 Euro gefördertes Transferprojekt an der UHH will Frauen und Mädchen nun Infos rund um Gesundheit, Hygiene und Ernährung zur Verfügung stellen – insbesondere für werdende Mütter mit Behinderungen.

Digitale Werkzeuge zur Verbesserung der Müttergesundheit in Äthiopien

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Excited to share my book!! What a year, totally wild. Will be available in open access soon www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/Der_Kampf_de...

Chance to learn Ge'ez next summer. Follow the link for more details: hmml.org/programs/int...

Are you interested or do you know someone who's interested in doing a PhD on Arabic translations of the Bible? The new #BibliaArabica long-term project is looking for candidates! (tbh, that would have been my dream position a few years back) Spread the word!

Big and very exciting news! We will soon have a long-term project in Munich @badw.de on the Jewish and Christian Arabic translations of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament #ArabicBible. Not only a wonderful topic, but the funding will enable otherwise impossible in-depth exploration.

"Ethiopian Devotions: Paintings, Illuminated Manuscripts, and Processional Crosses from the Fourteenth to the Twentieth Centuries" - the final work of the late Dr. Marilyn Heldman has been published today: www.amazon.com/gp/product/1...

Ethiopian Devotions: Paintings, Illuminated Manuscripts, and Processional Crosses from the Fourteenth to the Twentieth Centuries

Ethiopian Devotions: Paintings, Illuminated Manuscripts, and Processional Crosses from the Fourteenth to the Twentieth Centuries [Heldman, Marilyn E., Sereke-Brhan, Heran, Haile, Getatchew, Shelemay, Kay Kaufman, Nosnitsin, Denis] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Ethiopian Devotions: Paintings, Illuminated Manuscripts, and Processional Crosses from the Fourteenth to the Twentieth Centuries

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The latest update now finds 198 Ge'ez manuscripts back online! Bravo @britishlibrary.bsky.social !

Daniel Yacob @ethiopic.bsky.social · last yr.

By 2021, the @britishlibrary.bsky.social had digitized 300 Ethiopian Manuscripts. Since the October 2023 cyberattack, 36 have been restored. This spreadsheet (docs.google.com/spreadsheets...) lists the manuscripts and maps the old URL to the new. Sources used are in the spreadsheet (2nd tab).

„Notwendig, nützlich, neu – #Langzeitforschung in Hamburg“: Unsere multimediale, interaktive #Ausstellung lädt ein, die Vielfalt der sieben Langzeitforschungsprojekte der #AdWHH zu entdecken: vom 16.10. bis 15.12.2025 im Ausstellungsraum der @stabihh.bsky.social. 👉 www.awhamburg.de/aktuell/pres...

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

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Und wo ist der Flyer, der Männer auffordert sich nicht wie übergriffige Arschlöcher zu verhalten?

Some things never change! 4,000 year-old ancient Egyptian writing board with a student’s many spelling mistakes corrected in red ink by the teacher! 😂 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #Archaeology

We are thrilled to announce NASSCAL's first in-person gathering since 2018. Hosted once again by the University of Virginia. Come and tell us about your work. Details at www.nasscal.com/meetings/

Oh a tablet! So like an iPad? Cool. Makes sense. Laptops are so Babylonian.

JOB: come work with me @uni-konstanz.de ! We have a junior professorship to fill from 1 April 2026 (6 years, non-tenured, as funding comes from the Centre for Cultural Inquiry). The denomination is very timely: Environmental #Anthropology! Details ⬇️ stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/2... #academia

Junior Professorship (non-tenure) in Environmental Anthropology

Deadline: 01.10.2025

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Digitization & cataloging is complete for the 35 Ethiopic manuscripts microfilmed at the Austrian National Library in Vienna, including Aethiop. 16 (HMML project number 24994), which is of particular importance to the study of the Ethiopic Bible. Learn more: hmml.org/collections/...

Excited to share the article that @mmonier.bsky.social and I wrote on the Introduction to the Gospels by ibn al-Assal and its Arabic and Ethiopic traditions 🤩 brill.com/view/journal...

“Global AI demand is projected to account for 4.2 – 6.6 billion cubic meters of water withdrawal in 2027, which is more than the total annual water withdrawal of Denmark or half of the United Kingdom.” arxiv.org/pdf/2304.03271

A new, color, scan of the undeciphered scroll in the @transcrireada.bsky.social‬ collection was published online this month. The scans give a boost to a new effort attempting to decipher it: gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b... ‪

Lettre du roi Abba Bagibo au gouverneur du Godjam

Lettre du roi Abba Bagibo au gouverneur du Godjam -- -- manuscrits

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Jetzt ist das von @nkleinoeder.bsky.social und mir herausgegebene Sonderheft zu ‚Reassessing Germany‘s Colonial Economies‘ auch online verfügbar: biblioscout.net/journal/vswg...

On my way to Poland for this fun conference

I could not be happier - my good friend Bar Kribus is one of the winners of the 2025 Dan David Prize!! 🤩 He works with so much passion and dedication and his research on the Ethiopian Jews has defind the field in recent years! I feel incredibly proud of his accomplishment!

Dan David Prize@dandavidprize.org · last yr.

Announcing the winners of the 2025 Dan David Prize – the world's largest history prize. Winners receive $300,000 each in recognition of their contribution to the study of the past and to support their future endeavors. Congratulations to this year's winners 👏 dandavidprize.org/winners

youtube.com/@metmuseum?s... The Met has published a series of brilliant videos on various african cultural landmarks. First three are from Ethiopia 🤩

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The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy. The Museum lives in two iconic sites in New York City—The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters. M...

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I am so happy to have been part of this again! Editing a volume is great - seeing it published is even better 🤩 This volume includes also a humble contribution by myself - an abstract of my dissertation 😎 doi.org/10.15460/aet...

Aethiopica Journal@aethiopica.bsky.social · last yr.

Publication day! 🤩🥳 We are extremely excited to share the new volume of AETHIOPICA with you! Vol. 27 (2024) is hot off the press, and also available online in open access. journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/aethiopica/i...