See some of you tomorrow!

Bit of sun in Vienna today as well.

📯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!

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.

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! brill.com/view/journal...

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“: mein.aufstehn.at/petitions/la...

Latein kürzen? Nicht mit uns! 🏛️💥 youtube.com/shorts/RaFFR... Ein Video der Gesellschaft für Klassische Philologie Innsbruck zum Erhalt der 12 Jahreswochenstunden Latein in der AHS-Oberstufe mit Stimmen aus Schule, Universität und Politik. Bitte anschauen und weiterleiten!📚🌐

Just received copies of our Anselm book, thank you Brepols! Thanks too to co-editors and authors who made it such a great experience-can't wait to start on the next one. Suggestions please.

"A truly sensational find" made by my friend and colleague Adrian C. Pirtea 👀👇 #Syriac #ChristianArabic #ChristianEast

Hi, I am trying to access a manuscript held at the (Greek Orthodox) Jerusalem Patriarchal library. I wrote and received no response. Does anyone have experience with this library or know someone I can contact, please?

Das Archiv von Oriens christianus (1901-2014) wurde komplett digitalisiert und steht nun in #OpenAccess zur Verfügung orienschristianus.de Alle einzelnen Beiträge können im IxTheo recherchiert werden unter ixtheo.de/Record/19421...

✨proofs day✨ for "Victim Blaming and Slut Shaming in the Exegesis on the Soul," coming out with Harvard Theological Review soon

We have now a bsky page for the Vienna project, which just announced the 2026 online seminar. Check it out, it's a nice series of talks – organised by @dekayra.bsky.social.

A new #OpenAccess textbook for Sahidic Coptic! #Egyptology #ClassicsBlueSky #AncientBlueSky #LangSky uclpress.co.uk/book/sahidic...

Where is the Sappho Brothers Poem papyrus? We only know that it is LOST. Again. #Sappho #classics #papyrology facesandvoices.wordpress.com/2026/02/01/t...

Next week we are hosting another paper, this time by Nicolas Atas (KU Leuven) on Syriac lexica! Tune in on Thursday 5 Feb at our regular time of 10 AM CET. As always, don't forget to register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social if you're not yet on our mailing list!

Coming to a bookstore near you this summer! Thanks to everyone who made this possible. [Link in comments 👇]

Very pleased to be able to finally announce "The Critical Edition in the Infrastructure of Philology," a special issue of Philological Encounters edited by me and @danielpicus.bsky.social out this Spring.

Very exciting to see the new book of Leuven colleague Hanneke van der Schoor has now appeared, who uses Dead Sea Scroll evidence about the mysterious figure of Qahat to think through modern practices of editing and textual classification (brill.com/display/titl...; @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social).

Call for Papers - EABS 2026: Biblical Reception in Eastern Christian Traditions. We welcome papers on manuscripts, margins, scribes, biblical traditions, and more. Abstracts can be submitted until 31 January 2026: eabs.my.site.com/s/research-u...

Meet our team! Starting next month: Christoph Scheerer The GenAut Project: "The Followers of the Apostles as Literary Characters" genaut.univie.ac.at genaut.univie.ac.at/?page_id=37

Looted libraries : Politics, Memory, and German- Polish Entanglements @European Review of Books: europeanreviewofbooks.com/looted-libra...

brilliant article about dispersed, displaced, lost and destroyed collections and the strange combination of emotional, affective, technical and administrative language used to describe them

The Thesaurus Linguae Latinae project (125-year-long complete Latin language dictionary effort) is advertising to hire a full-stack developer in Munich (Django/React): job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5...

Please share widely! 3-year Postdoc in Early Christian Studies. Deadline: 8 March. Let me know if you have any questions or want to nominate a colleague.

🥁🥁🥁Hello academic blueskyers, we are hiring again. We are looking for a proactive, communicative, motivated post-doc 🦸‍♂️🦸‍♀️ for our ISF project Josephus Christianus (sinowloc.wixsite.com/josephus-chr...). Feel free to circulate!

In case you haven't yet heard about it, there is an interesting new project on 'Ethnicity and (In)Equality in Early Christianity' being led by Matthijs den Dulk (Radboud University). Currently hiring for a 3-year postdoc. Application deadline is 8 March. www.eiec.info/home

Seventeenth-century squirrel, looks like it’s eating a little nut. On an embroidered binding from a 1641 psalter, SSS.34.27 @theul.bsky.social. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBooks 📷 #photography

Excited to see this happening, and a huge THANK YOU to @drewjakeprof.bsky.social for seeing this through!!

Interested to work on our collections? The Call for applications of the LECTIO – KU Leuven Visiting Fellowships 2026–2027 is now open. As in previous years, Special Collections offers a joint fellowship. We will be happy to welcome you!

11 Postdoctoral Fellowship at Lund University, Scania, Sweden #VacancyEdu #Postdoc #Postdoctoral #PostdocJobs #ScienceCareer #AcademicJobs #Researcher #PhDlife #PostdoctoralFellowship #JobSearch #ScholarshipAlert vacancyedu.com/11-postdocto...

February 23 is the deadline to apply for Introduction to Ge’ez, a #language and #paleography course held from July 5–August 1, 2026, at HMML in Collegeville, Minnesota. Course fees, meals, and lodging are generously sponsored by @dumbartonoaks.bsky.social#language#paleography Apply today: hmml.org/programs/intro-ge-ez

Tomorrow!

I suppose this is the first to come to mind (from a facebook post here: www.facebook.com/share/17cx9V...).

Soon to appear, Eric Fournier and Maijastina Kahlos (eds.), Women and Gender in the Post-Roman Kingdoms, see www.brepols.net/products/IS-... and www.academia.edu/145456266/Wo... (incl. my paper on "Secular Women in the Lombard Kingdom“).

The “Early Christian Letters” chapter arrived in the mail.

New issue of the Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists, edited by @sofiatorallas.bsky.social , with contributions on literary papyri from @theonash.bsky.social and myself.

Come and become my new colleague: Two fully funded PhD positions (3yrs, start 9/2026) advertised at the Faculty of Theology (all disciplines) at #UniversityofCopenhagen, deadline: 16 March 2026 employment.ku.dk/phd?show=154...

The 2025 GenAut FWF START project seminar is completed! Excellent group of papers, check them out. The 2026 series, on GenAut figures in cultic contexts, is curated by Maria S. Thomas (info soon). Recordings: youtube.com/@receptionmatters The 2025 programme: genaut.univie.ac.at @fwf-at.bsky.social

An excellent new article in JTS. Congrats, Mina!