really don't understand the Yuval Harari hate, I thought this was excellent
selecting "add to dictionary" when Microsoft Word thinks "rabbinization" is a spelling error
last week, I had a dream about a writing a chapter on the Tunisian Jewish theory of sexuality. last night, I dreamt I needed to fix the pagination in a specific footnote
I'm seeing people say this is the first time a Greek literary text was found in mummification material — weren't there famously a bunch of Sappho fragments excavated the same way? Misogynistic erasure?
Dr. Michelle I. Turner@chaco-arch.bsky.social · 4mo agoThis is just so cool. A Roman-era mummy recently excavated in Egypt contained a fragment of papyrus with a section of the Iliad.
I would love to be pope because it seems like you mostly get to travel around Africa and the Middle East
watching the rabbinist slowly nod off in this un-air-conditioned Syriac lecture
Many get defensive when they hear others talk about the joy of eating kitniyot. I sit my ashki ass down and listen
'Portrait de femme en Flore' An intriguing 17thC (c. 1600-1650) painting by an unknown artist from the Louvre.
Important new publication of historical Berber lingusitics, esp. onomastics. Edited and organized by the brilliant Carles Múrcia (not on here, I think), with, among many others, articles by @lameensouag.bsky.social and myself.
I accept that I am in essence a lame white nerd based on the irrefutable evidence that when I listen to Vampire Weekend songs i feel them in my soul
'Mulier amicta sole et luna sub pedibus ei[u]s et sup[e]r caput corona stellarum duodecim'. BL Add 11695; Beatus of Liébana, Commentary on the Apocalypse; 1091-1109 CE; Spain, N.; ff.147v, 148r @blmedieval.bsky.social
Portrait of a young man in a mitre, Pieter Van Mol, c. 1630-1640. (Louvre)
All you need to know about Camus to understand he was kind of stupid is that he tried to do the “both sides have an equal claim to this land and we have to learn to live together” thing but with FRENCH ALGERIA
"... a history whose passage is almost imperceptible, that of man in his relationship to his environment, a history in which all change is slow, a history of constant repetition" (Braudel)
burying a rabbi in the sand and making a statue of Dionysus out of driftwood
deep esoteric Buddhist syncretism: medieval Rhineland Jews figuring out that "emptiness" and "Jesus" have the same gematria
"...the [late medieval] Christian populace frequently accused Jews of engaging in magic and witchcraft, an accusation which though not fully borne out by facts nevertheless undoubtedly represented a kernel of historical reality." (Baron)
I want to be able to tell my grandchildren that I once spoke Arabic better than English
Are people ever gonna get tired of the Scholem/Benjamin thing or are we gonna keep getting four books published on that every year
Midrash: "a genre which systematically erases the distance between philology and ethics"