@danbatovici
ERC CoG 2025 (claim.univie.ac.at) | FWF START Award 2024 (GenAut.univie.ac.at) | Co-host of @tetraseminar.bsky.social (TeTra.univie.ac.at) | Co-editor RBECS.org | Bits and bobs, manuscript studies, and the reception of EC literature. In Vienna.
Join us next Thursday, 12 March at 10 AM CET for the paper:
Gabrielle Russo (Ghent University)
•Regional Panegyric and the Tulunid Dynasty•
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Day one is behind us - it was of course amazing. Today we move on to the Arabic, North African, Syriac and Western Iberian worlds.
There is a Zoom link to follow the conference online: oeaw-ac-at.zoom.us/.../reg.../s...
Brief presentation of the project by Dan Batovici for AIEP/IAPS, with a preview of the ERC CoG CLAIM project that will start in September.
Many thanks Lavinia Cerioni for the kind invitation!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMCo...
Last day to submit a proposal!
Apparently the title of my monograph is “Pamphilus of Caesarea and Early Christian Book Culture” and my edited book with J. Verheyden is titled “Collective Biography from Ancient Greece to the Early Islamic World: A Critical Guide“ 🫡🎊 this one has great (and many!) contributions.
If you're in Vienna next week, this is a very interesting conference.
Our colleague's yesterday paper recording. Enjoy!
If you missed yesterday's paper by @dekayra.bsky.social, the recording is now available on our YouTube channel
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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
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Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin Vol. 11, Nos. 1-2 (2025) www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/en/comst/pub... @csmc-hamburg.bsky.social #openaccess @petertarras.bsky.social
#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
A TeTra paper by @dekayra.bsky.social tomorrow!
GenAut talks | Maria S. Thomas, "Publishing in a Twelfth-Century Syriac Monastery: Manuscript Production, Authority, and Scribal Practice at the Monastery of Mary Magdalene in Jerusalem," Thursday 26 February, online. @dekayra.bsky.social.
We are pleased to share that our research associate, Sofia Puchkova, has published an authoritative entry on Theodore of Mopsuestia for the DHGE – Louvain Dictionary of Church History (vol 34, fascicule 199b-200)
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Nice overview of the conference that just ended in Vienna.
GenAut recording | Jakob Engberg "The Care for the Remains of Polycarp in the Martyrdom of Polycarp in its Second Century Context"
The first paper of the seminar.
Full programme: genaut.univie.ac.at?page_id=671
Bit of sun in Vienna today as well.
It was a very nice conference!
📯It's (already) #SBL2026 Time!⏰
The SBL Unit "Ancient Education" led by @monikaamsler.bsky.social @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social Coogan has a terrific program, and will host three sessions: Letter-Writing and Education; Magical Texts and Education; Education and Emotion. Send us an abstract!
Congrats and congrats! Very good stuff.
I’m very grateful that my book on Pamphilus and Caesarea has now passed final acceptance at Cambridge University Press, following two generous and careful reports. Back to revisions and production work…
The volume I’m co-editing with Prof. Joseph Verheyden — Writing Collective Biographies from Ancient Greece to the Early Islamic World — has also passed final reviews at Cambridge University Press. Many thanks to the participants for their fantastic contributions to the volume!
My contribution to @bibleodyssey.bsky.social is now up: www.bibleodyssey.org/articles/apo... with a little nod to @chancebonar.bsky.social and his work www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
Nice conference in Vienna, coming up next week.
Poster providing information for a lecture to be given by Lydia Bremer-McCollum titled "Meeting Thekla in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Silk Road." The lecture will be held online via Zoom and in-person at Saint Louis University's Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Center on Thursday, February 26 at 3:30-5:00pm CST. The blurb for the talk reads: "Legends about Thekla survive in over eight languages, including Syriac, Ge'ez, Armenian, and Old Turkic. This talk analyzes the diverse linguistic manuscript traditions of the stories about Thekla contained in the apocryphal Acts of Paul and Thekla, using this text as a case study to think about the value of variation and linguistic diversity. Through examination of manuscripts from the Caucasus and across the Silk Road, we reflect on how these artifacts serve as crucial sites for thinking about justice, marginalization, and the richness of ancient Christianity."
I will be giving a lecture titled "Meeting Thekla in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Silk Road" later this month as part of The Silk Roads Lecture Series: People, Objects, and Stories on the Move at SLU's AMES Center. | February 26, 2026 at 3:30-5:00pm CST | Zoom: slu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
The deadline is close but it is not to late!!
Conference Announcement!
Sanctity and Ritual Remembrance: Comparative Approaches to Christian Liturgical Memory from Medieval Iberia to Central Asia
ÖAW, Vienna |
5–6 March 2026
Congrats to our collaborators @worldlyscribe.bsky.social, Giorgia Nicosia, @madalinatoca.bsky.social, and Adrian Pirtea for their articles in the newly published thematic issue of the Journal of Eastern Christian Studies (co-edited by Marion).
Several in Open Access!
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The first talk of this years online seminar: Jakob Engberg, "The Care for the Remains of Polycarp in the Martyrdom of Polycarp in its Second Century Context."
Tuesday, 17 February (10 AM CET)
•Followers of the Apostles in Cultic Contexts•
genaut.univie.ac.at
If you’re concerned about the planned reduction of Latin at Austrian schools, please consider signing this petition addressed to Bundesminister Wiederkehr: Latein & Altgriechisch sind keine „toten Sprachen“:
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