Mina Monier

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PI of the RCN-funded project Unconventional Gospels (UnGos): A Computer–Assisted Analysis of Complex Harmonic Traditions in Newly Discovered Manuscripts.

Dr. Josh Mugler, curator of Eastern Christian & Islamic manuscripts at HMML, presents this week at the World Congress of Syriac Studies / Conference of Christian Arabic Studies in Romania. Details: https://bit.ly/3PuXLHS Josh's topic: "Manuscript Witnesses to the Assyrian and Armenian Genocides."

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August 7, 2026

Manuscript Witnesses to the Assyrian and Armenian Genocides

Josh Mugler, Curator of Easter Christian and Islamic Manuscripts

Pictured: a manuscript digitized in the collection of the Chaldean Catholic Church, Patriarchate of Baghdad, in Baghdad, Iraq. View online in HMML Reading Room (CPB 00180): vhmml.org/readingRoom/view/139280

Why Arabic matters in biblical studies? Moshe bar Kepha was one of the most prominent Syriac-speaking writers of all time. His valuable commentary on Matthew incorporates the whole Gospel text in lemmata. It survives in 3 witnesses: BL Add MS 17274, Mardin 101, and one in Arabic: Vat.ar.453 (1/4)

The position is specifically directed at candidates interested in Roman social and economic history, ancient demography, or Roman archaeology, and offers the opportunity to investigate the lives of the men, women, and children who formed the labour force of the Roman countryside.

Universität Basel: PhD Position in Ancient History: The People Behind the Villa: Life, Labour, and Death in Roman Italy

The Department of Ancient Civilizations at the University of Basel invites applications for a fully funded PhD position, tenable from October 2026 (negotiable), within the SNSF-funded project “The Rom...

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Call for papers: On the Fringes of the Catena Format: Catena-Commentaries, Composite Exegesis, and the Posterity of Catenae, International workshop at KU Leuven, March 9-10, 2027. Abstracts due October 15, 2026.

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You can almost always find unexpected things in manuscripts. Today: an Ethiopian scribe trying his hand on a Greek note in an Arabic manuscript (Sin. ar. 506). It's not only the shape of some letters, or the use of textual dividers, but esp. the sneakily inserted word ቀሌምኮስ that gives him away.

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“I carry with me a photo of a Muslim child who, during my visit to Lebanon, was standing there holding a sign that said ‘Welcome, Pope Leo,’ and in this latest phase of the war, he was killed. “As a Church, I say again: as a pastor, I cannot be in favor of war.” — Pope Leo XIV

Hi folks, can anyone please recommend a study (in whichever language) on the development of the Byzantine Gospel lectionary, and its manuscript symbols/ligatures etc. ? Thanks!