Over the years, Miyagawa So (University of Tsukuba), one of DO’s most prolific contributors, has written extensively on digital initiatives related to various ancient African languages and scripts, including Demotic, Egyptian Hieratic, Coptic, and Nubian. Read more on our blog ⬇️

Visiting AP in Classics and Religious Studies at Hamilton College: Religions of Late Antiquity with the ability to teach Greek and/or Latin and New Testament (in translation). Review of applications begins February 23, 2026.

Did you know Charles Darwin was born #OnThisDay in 1809? #DarwinDay celebrates not just Darwin, but the gardeners, naturalists and women scientists who shaped his work. Explore their stories: https://bit.ly/45YkKQD @christscollegecam.bsky.social#OnThisDay

Heute startet die Tagung "Theologische Forschung, Lehre und Infrastruktur im Kontext von Digitalisierung und KI". Abends folgt der Festakt "50 Jahre IxTheo" Online-Teilnahme an der Tagung ist auch spontan möglich; das Nachtkonzert um 21:15 Uhr (Stiftskirche) ist öffentlich: ixtheo.de/Content/digi...

Vom Zettelkatalog zur digitalen Plattform: 50 Jahre Index Theologicus. Artikel zum Jubiläum des @ixtheo.bsky.social auf attempto-online (@unituebingen.bsky.social): uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

February 23 is the deadline to apply for Intermediate Classical Armenian, a language and paleography course held from July 5–25, 2026, at HMML in Collegeville, Minnesota. All course fees, meals, and lodging are sponsored by @dumbartonoaks.bsky.social. Apply: hmml.org/programs/intermediate-armenian

Summer school course: Old Georgian, 4–14 August 2026, Summer School of Ancient Languages, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. For those interested, register here for more information: forms.gle/J6HZYbAZwgAx...

+++ Newsletter +++ Es bleibt bitterkalt in Berlin, und auch wenn man kaum einen Fuß vor die Tür setzen möchte, bietet der Februar kurz vor dem Semesterende noch einmal ein spannendes Programm sowie verschiedene Ausschreibungen und Calls: h7.cl/1nZc4. Reinschauen lohnt sich!

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...

📢Reisestipendien der #DMG 2026! Die Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft vergibt jährlich bis zu drei Reisestipendien für den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs! Bewerbungsschluss für das Jahr 2026 ist der 28. Februar. Jetzt bewerben! Weitere Infos auf der Website der DMG ➡️ dmg-web.de/foerderung/r...

New blog post: "Biblia Arabica becomes an Academies project: Q&A with Nathan P. Gibson and Ronny Vollandt" biblia-arabica.com/biblia-arabi...

A study at U Mass Amherst finds that Elon Musk manipulated Twitter to bolster the voice of the Neo Nazi Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) before the German 2025 parliamentary elections. No surprises here. groups.cs.umass.edu/equate-ml/20...

NYTImes Op-Ed board finally comes close to saying what others have already realized.

We need ICE OUT of Minnesota. They need to repair and restore what they have broken. Then we need to rip ICE apart.

Minnesota has now been turned into a war zone by a federal government that has lost sight of the values that make America great. We must impeach Kristi Noem and abolish ICE.

"[A MEMORY OF VIOLENCE's] analysis of early Christian conflicts has furthermore taken shape against the backdrop of ever more polarized U.S. political conversations..." Read an excerpt with author's note from A MEMORY OF VIOLENCE by Christine Shepardson: www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/e... #SCS2026

Check out “Responsibility for Murder: The Background of Judith’s Legal Argumentation” by Joseph Scales in #JBL144.4. Access the article online using your SBL username and password. tinyurl.com/a6cbyh55.

Call for Papers: Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniense LXXV: Translating the Scriptures, July 15 - 18, 2026, Leuven. Abstracts due March 31, 2026. theo.kuleuven.be/en/research/...

Save the Date! Die Stabi veranstaltet vom 29.9.–2.10.2026 eine Handschriftenportal-Summer School für Masterstudierende & Promovierende: Im Fokus stehen praktische Erfahrungen – von der Erschließung einer Handschrift bis hin zur Arbeit mit Originalfragmenten der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin.

Next week in Rome!! www.unigre.it/en/events-an...

This month! Join us on the 24th of February for an @irishtheolquart.bsky.social Lecture with Prof Adele Reinhartz, University of Ottawa, who will deliver the lecture "Shared Scriptures, Shared Questions: Jewish readings of the Christian Testament". Register your place at [email protected].

2026-28 Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Christianity, Judaism, or American Religions, Carleton College, Northfield, MN. FT/Fixed term: 2 years. Deadline February 23. nt4ox.link/carleton-pdf26

Please join us on February 6 at noon (EST) for the first First Friday Workshop of the new semester!

Oh, I can't wait for this!

📣BNTS 2026 will take place in Maynooth this August and the Call for Papers is now live. 📅You can submit until 13th April - please tell your friends, colleagues, and casual acquaintances! bnts.org.uk/bnts-call-fo...

The Minnesota Star Tribune, @mprnews.org @minnesotareformer.com , @spokesmanrecorder.bsky.social, @sahanjournal.bsky.social, Center for Broadcast Journalism and Minnesota Newspaper Association today released the following statement:

Preaching at tonight's Community Eucharist, as we anticipated Candlemas, our Lecturer in New Testament, Julia reflected in her sermon on Luke 2, where Mary and Joseph bring the infant Jesus to the Temple in Jerusalem.

The Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room always displays an item from our world-renowned Papyrology Collection. See a leaf from the world's oldest existing manuscript of the letters of St. Paul (P.Mich inv. 6238, or P46), written around 200 C.E and found in Egypt. https://myumi.ch/VVXXJ

An opportunity to come work at @stpatsmaynooth.bsky.social as a lecturer in Sacred Scripture (with a specialisation in Old Testament). Closing date for applications: 20 Feb 2026. #academicposts #jobs #theology spcm.bamboohr.com/careers/38?s...

I'm giving a talk in DC (CUA) this Friday on Old Uyghur. Check it out, if you're around and interested! RSVP here forms.gle/WhMQfr2UqbbU...

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...

I am very excited about this, which arrived on my doorstep today. (YAY) @vox-magica.bsky.social

How did early readers think about the relationship between the gospels? Repost to enter a drawing to win a free book.

𝗚𝗻𝗼𝘀𝗲, 𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗲𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗲́𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝗘́𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗱𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝙋𝙨𝙚𝙪𝙙𝙤-𝘾𝙡𝙚́𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨 Une comparaison avec les écrits gnostiques Philippe Therrien Plus d'Infos: bit.ly/4jSHoPX #Exegesis #Religion #Gnosticism #ReligiousStudies

The Department of Theology at Marquette University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in New Testament beginning August 2026. employment.marquette.edu/postings/242...

Journal of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies Vol. 15 (2023) lockwoodonlinejournals.com/index.php/jc... @jennycromwell.bsky.social

Northfield MN, pop. 20,000, on a chilly afternoon (-12 F with a little bit of wind). About 350 bundled up to march, plus a lot of cars and trucks beeping support (including some delightfully profane truck decorations--hands were too numb to get that picture, sadly).

You should visit Winona, or even Rochester. Just this last Sunday, about 600 people attended an anti-ICE protest in a city with a population of only about 26,000. This video is taken from one of the protest organizers:

iCE raiding the city of Rochester, MN today!

From 1973 to 1994, the Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library (EMML) project photographed 9,000+ manuscripts in Ethiopia. The microfilm copies sent to HMML are now fully available online—digitized over the past 20 years. Wayne Torborg tells the story behind this milestone: https://bit.ly/4bslCAH

Andrew Mark Henry wins the 2026 Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion. Dr. Henry is creator and host of 'Religion for Breakfast' (youtube) and founder of the community, The Religion Department. Congratulations! aarweb.org/news/andrew-...

The deadline is fast approaching! Apply for a Shohet Scholars Grant from the International Catacomb Society!

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

It seems worth mention that there is a remembrance of resistance against Nazis within Lutheran culture. Growing up Lutheran I was schooled in how there were Lutherans who stood against the Nazis, sometimes punished for it, always remembered.

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.

Thank you to the Center for the Study of Learning and Performance (CSLP) for the kind note! Merci au Centre d’études sur l’apprentissage et de la performance (CEAP) pour cette belle note ! www.concordia.ca/cunews/artsc...

"This is no longer a conversation about law enforcement or immigration policy. This is about authoritarianism." gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...

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

Die Uni Münster ist die weltweit einzige Hochschule, die eine Vollprofessur zur #Koptologie ausweist. Die „Brigitte und Martin Krause-Stiftung“ hat es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht, die Koptologie-Forschung und speziell einige Teilaspekte durch finanzielle Unterstützung voranzutreiben.