I'm glad to share with you my latest publication, "Study of the Masorah in the Digital Ages", Journal of Jewish Studies 76(2): 301-311 (2025). You can access the pre-typesetting version using this link: digital.csic.es/handle/10261...

Participo en esta edición de la Noche de los Investigadores en la que se muestran diferentes aspectos de la riqueza cultural de la Edad Media. Estaré en el módulo de escritura. Todavía hay plazas. ¡No te lo pierdas! Información 👇

Café Digital del ILC: "Acceso y reutilización de imágenes digitales: Soluciones prácticas para proyectos de Humanidades Digitales" 📅 17 de septiembre de 2025; 12:00 h 📍Sala Julián Ribera (1C9+23) del CCHS-CSIC cchs.csic.es/es/event/caf...

New publication in #openaccess "Reading:Performance and Materiality in Hebrew and Aramaic Traditions" www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

‪⚠️Notice: For those interested in Hebrew manuscripts at the British Library, while the British Library's online resources are down, you can access them through: openn.library.upenn.edu/html/0047.html #Hebrewmanuscripts #medievalmanuscripts

Working with high-res medieval manuscript images? Just published our practical IIIF-based solution that's transformed how we handle manuscript fragments in paratextuality research and manuscript studies overall digital.csic.es/handle/10261... #medievalmanuscripts #paratexts #IIIF #codicology #HHDD

📣 The 22nd Symposium of the Spanish Association of Hebrew and Jewish Studies (AEEHJ) is happening next week in Soria! 👉 Register now via its website: aeehj.net

While preparing my seminar on the CSIC Hebrew Bible team, I found a unique copy of Benito Arias Montano's Hebrew Bible among their materials. What makes it unique? I wrote about it in BTNT's Piece of the Month. 👇

CFP: Thematic special issue of Renaissance Studies, “Diasporas of Sefarad and al-Andalus: Iberian Questions beyond Iberia.” Final drafts of articles (ready for submission for peer-review) will be due Monday, July 21, 2025. #CFP #Andalus #Sefarad #diasporas #moriscos #Sephardic #medievalsky

You can read my review of Thea Gomlauri's book on the Lailashi Codex here: digital.csic.es/handle/10261... It is the first one in a language other than English. But you can use Google Translate if needed 😉

📢Sefarad journal publication The two issues corresponding to the year 2024 have been published. With these issues, the magazine moves to a digital-only format. You can read them here 👇 sefarad.revistas.csic.es/index.php/se... sefarad.revistas.csic.es/index.php/se...

ICMS 2025 is approaching quickly. I'll contribute to the session on para-biblical texts with a paper titled "Unveiling the Role of Paratextual Elements in Medieval Hebrew Bible Manuscripts".

Great news! The National Library of Israel now offers registered users remote access to its digitized archival materials for self-study, teaching, and research purposes. Link to the application form: www.nli.org.il/en/at-your-s...

Ink, angels and hard graft: the artists keeping Ethiopia’s ancient illuminated manuscript craft alive www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

'Let's talk about the "Paratexts"' lecture series. Starting on April 30th, as part of the upcoming exhibition "Manuscripts and Mind" and the project "Paratexts Seeking Understanding," the Chester Beatty Library will explore the concept of paratexts. chesterbeatty.ie/exhibi.../ma...

📢Abierto el plazo de introducción a la investigación #JAEIntro25. Ofrezco el programa JAEINT25_EX_1275, "Introducción al estudio de las anotaciones en manuscritos medievales" Información 👇 sede.csic.gob.es/tramites/pro... 🗓️ Hasta el 2 de mayo

La asfixia a las universidades públicas madrileñas amenaza a los grados minoritarios. El primero en recibirla ha sido el de Ciencias de las Religiones, el único en el mundo impartido en lengua española. Hay que salvarlo y a la universidad publica también. www.larazon.es/opinion/salv...

Hybrid lecture This afternoon!

Lecture in Hebrew Bible

Purim begins on the evening of 13th March. Here is the decorated initial-word panel with birds and hybrids, at the beginning of the book of Esther #Purim Bodleian Library MS. Kennicott 3; Pentateuch with Onkelos, Five Scrolls and Haftarot; 13th century; f.233r @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social

New issue | Journal of Jewish Studies 76.1 is now available. It features articles on Hadrian’s Judaean ‘Adventus’ coins, the 'aurum coronarium’s' role in Jewish identity, the origins of the fixed Jewish calendar, plus much more. Browse the full issue 🔗 bit.ly/JJS-Vol-76-1 @ochjs.bsky.social

#NewPublication #OpenAccess 2 vols www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116... www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

We are happy to announce that this year's Oxford Biblical Hebrew Summer School will take place online from 26 Aug-5 Sept 2025! To learn more and #apply: www.ochjs.ac.uk/oxford-bibli.... #JewishStudies #BiblicalHebrew

M1's masoretic appendices: a new description por Elvira Martín Contreras @emartincontreras.bsky.social (ILC-CSIC) #OpenAccess #AccesoAbierto @digitalcsic.bsky.social Acceso en línea ⬇️ hdl.handle.net/10261/381273

The call for papers for the 2025 SBL Annual Meeting Masoretic Studies Section is now up 👇

Hoy aprendemos más sobre el proyecto de Biblia hebrea de la mano de @emartincontreras.bsky.social en la @bibtntcsic.bsky.social

Excited to announce our Classical Judeo-Arabic Manuscripts Workshop, taking place on 5 & 12 March as part of our #OSRJL! Details in the poster, application here: forms.office.com/pages/respon.... #rareJewishlanguages #Jewishlanguages #JudeoArabic #manuscripts #manuscriptstudies #workshop

Ya está accesible mi último artículo "El mito de la transmisión inalterable del texto bíblico hebreo. Revisión crítica desde la literatura rabínica y la masora" Enlace: digital.csic.es/handle/10261...

H-Judaic is looking for one or more Book Review Editors: networks.h-net.org/group/discus... Please consider nominating yourself or spreading the word with peers! Inquiries and submissions should be sent to Prof. Jonathan D. Sarna at the following email address: [email protected] #academicsky

🚨Nuevo comunicado: Cuando el marketing pesa más que la Ciencia🚨 @cienciagob.bsky.social ha cancelado por sorpresa la convocatoria de grupos de investigación en IA 2023 Explicamos cuál es la importancia de este golpe a la investigación en España🧵 🔗 fji.precarios.org/cuando-el-ma...

Este cambio en la denominación de los "contratos" predoctorales para llamarlos "ayudas" puede parecer baladí, pero es un retroceso de décadas. Investigar es trabajar, y como tal la relación deber ser contractual. Urge una aclaración y rectificación inmediata por el Ministerio de Ciencia

El próximo día 28 resentaré algunas de las maravillas que la @Bibtntcsic conserva relacionadas con el trabajo pionero del equipo de Biblia hebrea del CSIC.

In May 1978, two Spanish women, Professors Emilia Fenández Tejero and Mª Teresa Ortega Monasterio (CSIC), travelled to Cairo to consult the Cairo Codex of Prophets, one of the oldest Hebrew biblical manuscripts.

The oldest known stone tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments in Paleo-Hebrew script, dating from 300 to 800 A.D., will be sold in New York this month www.sothebys.com/en/digital-c...

After serving for six years as the SBL Masoretic Studies program unit chair, my term is coming to an end. This experience has been incredibly enriching, and I have thoroughly enjoyed it. I hope I have contributed, even in a small way, to promoting Masoretic studies and

The story of the Kahle family's escape from Nazi Germany is told by his wife in this book. Highly recommended. www.ediorso.it/non-come-la-...

The volume dedicated to Paul Kahle in issue 36/2 (2014) of the Henoch journal is a great complement to the "Hebraic" part (absent here). drive.google.com/file/d/18zeN... drive.google.com/file/d/0B7m5...

Here is the list of the Dead Sea Scrolls dated to the Early Hellenistic by the editors. You can make customizable lists like this, compare scribal and material features of the scrolls, and get information about individual scrolls through our new database: lyingpendatabases.streamlit.app/DSSscribal

Training your pet dragon to fly BL Add MS 62925, f. 49r

A New Hebrew Bible codex has been sold. The Montefiori codex (Iberian Peninsula, circa 1300) sold for $1,020,000 genazym.bidspirit.com?appVersion=3...

Ahora sí, esto era lo que quería hacer: un starter pack de señoras que hablan de ciencia, con periodistas, divulgadoras y científicas. go.bsky.app/UkpCwvF

The SBL Global Virtual Meeting 2024 will feature a special session on the Study of the Masorah in the Digital Age. April 4th, 11:00am-12:30pm EDT Register for the SBL Global Virtual Meeting here: sbl-site.org/meetings/Glo...

Nine days left! Please consider sending a paper to our unit.

This rare 11th century Islamic astrolabe is one of the oldest yet discovered. It's also "a powerful record of scientific exchange between Arabs, Jews, and Christians over 100s of years." arstechnica.com/science/2024...

The Steering Committee for the SBL Masoretic Studies Program Unit wishes to invite proposals for papers for the 2024 Annual Meeting in San Diego. We have planned four sessions, one co-sponsored with the Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew Program Unit sbl-site.org/meetings/Con...

If you haven't registered yet, there's still time! For attendance in person and any queries contact me. For attendance online: rediris.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

A new article about Hebrew illuminated Sephardic Bible (BnF Héb. 20) by Julie Harris muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...