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- three Scholem biographies published in the last two years
- Benjamin biography this year based almost exclusively on Scholem correspondence
- new Scholem biography coming out next year

Are people ever gonna get tired of the Scholem/Benjamin thing or are we gonna keep getting four books published on that every year

charakteres between Greek and Jewish magic

Midrash: "a genre which systematically erases the distance between philology and ethics"

Dew in God’s curls

there is no such thing as western civilisation

the new testament is so funny bro this guy is just a reconstructionist rabbi

I went to school with a cloak since first days

Zionism, a strategy to “become not-us”

I’m hearing on Instagram that it’s actually Orientalist to OPPOSE brutal western intervention and regime change

“God will bring ease after hardship”: 1593 album amicorum entry by Franciscus Raphelengius (1539-1597), quoting from Ecclesiastes (in Hebrew), Apollinaris’s Metaphrase of the Psalms (in Greek), and the Qur’an (in Arabic). Koninklijke Bibliotheek, ms 74 G 21

#TIL "the LORD of Hosts" (𐡉𐡄𐡄 𐡑𐡁𐡀𐡕, [yh]h ṣbʾt) is attested as a divine name on an #Aramaic ostracon from Elephantine. (First line, starting with the second 𐡄.)

sabbatai tzvi purim costume

Let me know if it is. The author does not share your politics but still might have worthwhile insight

medieval polemics had the decency to depict both the Christian and Jewish characters with the chad face

metrograph is bleeding me dry

I love this genre of scary 19th century rabbi. they don't make em like this anymore

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so funny when the only image that survives of a rabbi is like 4x4 pixels. this could be anybody

Alysa Liu is having a pluribus-like effect on the bisexual women in my life

I wish it was still 1840 and you could take a “send him 2-3 years to Volozhin and forget” approach to your son’s Jewish education

saying "lips" when I mean "two languages"

Do you want to come through tonight? I’m getting some people together to forget a number of things in common

Other than weather what has ever been inclement

I wonder if the old guard Oxbridge philologists pronounced “etc” with the proper Latin et KETera

* spelled, sorry, my mind is with the sensorium…

Wish I could take this wow

Alphabet switching for the name of God in Judeo-Arabic: the word Allah الله is smelled with Arabic letters in this otherwise Hebrew-script text!

Me on the right

(Jewish lit theory guy seeing a Christmas tree for the first time) wow. Dickensian