Dr. Annette Yoshiko Reed
@AnnetteYReed
Stendahl Chair @HarvardDivinity @Harvard
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I had such fun talking abt my book with Xava and Michael on their fabulous podcast: Xai, how are you?
Book #WhenAHuman Gives Birth to a Raven, open access: umich.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=…
#talmud #jewishstudies #queer #animals
Fantastic news: our work on the Bodleian Libraries 'Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse' project is now complete with 94 manuscripts fully digitised and available to view on the Digital Bodleian site! 🥳📜
Check out the project page for more:
digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/collections/ma…
Did you see the #solareclipse ?
Solar eclipses have captured the imaginations of artists and curious minds since early human history—at least since the first time one was allegedly predicted in 585 BCE by Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus. Here are a few from our collection:
Total Eclipse of the Sun! We may not be able to see the show today in the UK, but we can enjoy this amazing 13th-century diagram of an eclipse from a Latin copy of De motibus planetarum by Alfraganus, now Bodleian Libraries MS. Arch. Selden. B. 34, f. 47v 🌘
Solar eclipse
#SolarEclipse2024
BL Yates Thompson 31; Matfré Ermengau of Béziers, Breviari d'Amor (Catalan prose version); 14th century; Spain, E.; f.53r Medieval Manuscripts
Passover still a couple of weeks away but here is the depiction of a seder table from the 'Ashkenazi Haggadah'.
#ManuscriptMonday
BL Add 14762; the 'Ashkenazi Haggadah'; c.1460 CE; Germany, S.; f.6r BL_HebrewMSS BL Asian and African