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

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

metrograph is bleeding me dry

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

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

poetic description of a bilingual manuscript from a lecture today: “naturally the Latin begins where the Hebrew ends”

Announcing my Jewishness by being the only guy in class to defend Freud

How late medieval Middle Eastern peasants adopted Arab cultural identities and formed village clans. Becoming Arab by Yossef Rapoport arrives next week on 18 November (13 Jan UK pub). Preorder yours today: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #History

Just found out about this amazing example of #manuscript #recycling . The whole manuscript is made up from the margins of an earlier liturgical manuscript, cut out and rearranged (hence the unusual format), the (mostly) blank margins then used to copy various magical texts in the mid 16th century.

This is more of a sneeze than a question. This is more of a yawn than a question. Hi thanks for your talk. This is more of a threat than a question

The future is satmar

Roommate listening to Oppenheimer soundtrack in the shower

Medieval angel roof boss

"Jonah and the Whale", Folio Probably from a Jami al-Tavarikh (Compendium of Chronicles) Persia, c. 1400 (Met Museum)

Graduate education at its best follows a kind of dream logic, and at its worst the logic of a paranoid conspiracy theorist. The rules of association in either case are functionally the same

Getting confused and wishing the hasidim an Eid Mubarak

9th century rabbi described posthumously by his students as "accustomed to amulets and whispers, and similar things"

55 EARTHEN CAULDRONS 55 COPPER POTS 55 ANDALUSI ROBES 55 RAW ANDALUSI CLOTHS 100 CLAY LAMPS 100 BAHARS OF SANDALWOOD 100 MANNS OF SILK 100 DINARS OF SILVER 100 SHEETS OF PAPER 55 BAHARS OF IRON 55 DAMASCENE SWORDS 55 BAHARS OF PEPPER 55 BAHARS OF CARDAMOM 155 BETEL NUTS

Earliest example of a lead funerary cross from pre-Conquest England: “On the 11th March 1063 departed out of this life Wlfmaeg, sister of Wlfric the Abbot”. St Augustine’s, Canterbury.

Not only does the name Yaḥyā occur in the Geniza letters, so does the Berber equivalent Yedder, in a letter dated 1038 AD - although not in a context that would tell us the bearer's religion. geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents... bsky.app/profile/rach...

regularly putting "journal 2 pages" and "read novel" on my to-do list to ensure I maintain a relationship with my soul over the next six years

the use of the phrase "exotic eastern landscapes" re: a memoir by Edward Said has to be intentionally ironic right

Impossible to go to LA without feeling like the Woody Allen character in Annie Hall

studying a language feels so good when you finally make it to the body horror unit

Slavoj Žižek offers keynote address “What is Violence?” at the Lockheed Martin annual Ideas Summit in Aspen

The Minotaur in the the labyrinth: we also see mentioned King Minos, the designer Daedalus, and his son Icarus Ghent University Library MS 92; Lambertus a S. Audomaro, Liber Floridus; 1121 CE; f.20r

Monumental three-volume Handbook of Epigraphic Cultures to be published by De Gruyter, early next year hopefully. Open Access eBook! Includes chapters on Khitan and Tangut epigraphy.

Uncatalogued Arabic manuscript from West Africa — a fragmented. Loose leaves, varying paper sizes. Topics include mathematics, astrology, talismans, magic, divination, and treatises. I am looking for assistance with describing this manuscript, if interested, please DM me. Thanks

This is how I speak Arabic

Mūsa receives the Torah from the angel Jibril