5 May in Leuven! Looking forward to presenting my book, The Multiplicity of Scripture: The Making of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible (PIMS @uoftpress.bsky.social @brepols.net @degruyterbrill.bsky.social 2025) at @lectio-institute.bsky.social www.kuleuven.be/lectio/event... #BookHistory #earlymodern

Jonathan Sheehan will be at the Institute for Advance Study tomorrow (April 15th) at 5:00 pm EDT, for a discussion of his new book, On the Altar. His work offers a new account of sacrifice both sacred and secular. The talk will be followed by a book signing. RSVP here: buff.ly/TMax2m0

Where the wise men live: a view of #Persia from #Antwerp, ca. 1570 "Persici Sive Sophorum Regni Typus", an highly detailed map, part of Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598), Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Antwerp: Gillis Coppens van Diest, 1571). NB: including the island of "Carge", i.e. Kharg.

Now in #paperback, Ancient Christianities traces the evolution of early Christianity—or rather, of early Christianities—through five centuries of Empire, mapping its pathways from the hills of Judea to the halls of Rome and Constantinople. Read a free preview: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

This is now a must read: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

First edition of Abravanel's commentary on the #Haggadah (Constantinople: Ibn Nahmias, 1505), with a border cut by silversmith Alfonso Fernández de Córdoba for a Zaragoza church manual (1486), then used by Jewish printers in Híjar (1487) and Lisbon (1489), before being carried to the Ottoman Empire.

We are pleased to launch today a new funding programme for Fellows & Associate Fellows of the Society resident outside the UK & Ireland bit.ly/3PtDQZu Grants support research in UK / Irish archives for our international historians. Deadline 8 May to enable research from summer 2026 #Skystorians 1/2

Éven bloeit de magnolia op de Brabantse Olijfberg. Gebouwd in 1615 als katholieke kloosterkerk, onder Frans bewind een paardenstal en bakkerij, in het Verenigd Koninkrijk een Nederlandse protestantse kerk, in België de kerk van de Duitse kolonie en sinds 1918 de Protestantse kerkgemeente Antwerpen…

I'm happy to present here the new special issue of Studia Rosenthaliana on the early modern rabbis of Amsterdam. On how a new model of urban rabbinate was created. www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

Forthcoming new book by Ann Blair on authorship & collaboration, from @princetonupress.bsky.social: 👀 📗 press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #EarlyModern #HistBookChat

New in #openaccess 🔓 How did ancient Jewish and Christian interpreters think about time? This volume, edited by Maren Niehoff & @markschies.bsky.social, explores competing concepts of time in biblical interpretation. Read it here ⬇️ www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...

Publiekslezing @uantwerpen.be door Dr Yusuf Çelik @vuamsterdam.bsky.social over de Banū Qurayẓa en Joodse tradities in de vroege Islam! 23 maart 2026, 18:00 Lokaal R.124, Rodestraat 14, 2000 Antwerpen Gratis toegang Inschrijven: [email protected] Allen welkom! www.uantwerpen.be/nl/onderzoek...

Miri Rubin in Antwerp on Medieval Cities This afternoon at 16:00: Prof Miri Rubin (@qmul.bsky.social), Raymond Van Uytven Chair in #urbanhistory 2026, will deliver a public lecture at the @uantwerpen.be, co-hosted by @urbanhistoryua.bsky.social and the Institute for Jewish Studies. All welcome!

Absolute DREAM of a PhD position! Four years getting lost in the Plantin Press 🤩 #BookHistory #EarlyModern #Skystorians

Applications are now open for Trinity Term 2026 classes with our Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages! Be sure to #Apply by noon on Apr. 10th, UK time! www.ochjs.ac.uk/language-cla... #languagelearning #oxford #jewishhistory

"Piety, Secrets, and Physic. Facing #Epidemics through Shared Remedies in #EarlyModern #Yiddish" Monday evening, 9/3, the Institute of Jewish Studies at @uantwerpen.be will host a public lecture by Daniella Zaidman-Mauer (@uvahumanities.bsky.social) All welcome! www.uantwerpen.be/nl/onderzoek...

Stil life of untrimmed pages with proof corrections of the Polyglot bible #rarebooks #earlymodern #bookhistory 📚📜💙

Quick reminder: apply for up to £ 9,500 for an academic event in any field pertaining to Jewish Studies New feature: Student Members of the European Association for Jewish Studies now can apply for funding for Graduate Conference! Check out the details in the link below.

A day to reread the remarkable Reckless Rites: Purim and the Legacy of Jewish Violence @princetonupress.bsky.social, by Elliott Horowitz ז״ל, my late deeply-missed friend. press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Hebrew as the early modern gateway drug to Arabic: Franciscus Raphelengius reading a Qur'an by noting Hebrew cognates above the line in @ubleiden.bsky.social MS. Or. 251 (eventually a model for his Arabic type), fully digitised here: digitalcollections.universiteitleiden.nl/view/item/33...

P.P. Rubens, The Circumcision of Christ (1605), Chiesa del Gesù e dei Santi Ambrogio e Andrea, Genoa.

"Muslim Books in Christian Hands: From Iberian Moriscos to Early Modern Europe" Thrilled to see the announcement of the 2026 Lyell Lectures by Mercedes García-Arenal (@csic.es) at the @bodleian.ox.ac.uk later this Spring. visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/lyell-lectur...

Genizah Fragment (Or.1080 J23): a late 12th century love letter. Perahya is in Cairo and misses his wife, Umm Thana: “Of late my yearning has become so strong that I am not able to bear it anymore." He invites her to join him, promising she can choose her own carpets. 🤔 https://loom.ly/h2W1pMI

This is a terrific opportunity for students keen to learn how to work with Hebrew manuscripts, hands-on, with one the world’s most important collections of Judaic MSS. I took this twice, and my life has never quite been the same.

Aanrader: dit boeiende vraaggesprek met Maarten Van Ginderachter, mijn collega aan de @uantwerpen.be, n.a.v. zijn boek Arm Vlaanderen (Horizon 2025) in de @standaard.be www.standaard.be/media-en-cul...

First London Palaeography Seminar of 2026 coming up! Eyal Poleg, no less, speaking on 'The Science of Erasures' - Tuesday 3rd February, 5:30pm Senate House and online. To learn more and to register: ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Glad to have contributed to the Encyclopedia of Jewish Book Cultures @degruyterbrill.bsky.social a fantastic resource for #BookHistory and #JewishHistory. I wrote a little piece on the Kennicott Bible, “the most lavishly illuminated Hebrew Bible to have survived from medieval Spain” (M. Beit-Arié).

"I'm off to Antwerp tomorrow to buy that Hebrew book". I've long wondered about the letters (late 1519) in which Erasmus tells his buddy Maarten Lips he's shopping for a Hebrew book for him. And - εὕρηκα! - a Hebrew Psalter, printed in 1519, with Lips's name and Greek initials beneath the colophon.

⌛Only one week left! Apply for your Fellowship! Ever dreamed of spending 1 to 3 months fully immersed in the Leiden Special Collections? Now is the time to make that happen. Scaliger Institute offers 16 fellowship grants for 2026. 📅 Deadline: 1 February 🔗 Learn more & apply: edu.nl/3x7xg

Ancient Jewish History in Medieval Lombardy in Renaissance Florence Boccaccio wrote > 1,000 marginalia in a MS of Josephus's Jewish Antiquities copied at Monte Cassino. Silvia Finazzi (Roma Tre)'s critical edition of all of them, published by Olschki: #bookhistory www.olschki.it/libro/978882...

🥁🥁🥁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!

By way of introduction: my book, The Multiplicity of Scripture: The Making of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible (Toronto: PIMS 2025) pims.ca/publication/... Available in North America via @uoftpress.bsky.social, in Europe via @brepols.net, and in digital form by @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

First post on Bluesky... Looking forward to connecting with friends and colleagues old and new, and even with non-historians. Eens kijken of het in deze kroeg zo gezellig is als men zegt!