Just want to plug a newish podcast I like open.spotify.com/show/2UCLvncn5…

Chronological distribution of active cuneiform archives in Babylonia, 702–330 BCE. Almost all stopped in 484 BC.

And now the discount code (such as it is)!

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Publication day (discount code coming)!

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I'm really looking forward to the responses it generates.

For now, I want to recognize the incredible network of friends & colleagues around me, who helped make this a richly edifying & deeply enjoyable process.

academia has you beefing with someone 3k miles away who is also one of only 4 people on earth who likes the same stuff as you

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

Our second edition of the Biblical Interpretation Reading List has been published online and it is open access. See here: brill.com/view/journals/…

Today, we have a Publication Preview from Jae Han, on his book _Prophets and Prophecy in the Late Antique Near East._ buff.ly/3JfaVBS

Just received this 👇 important new book in the mail – congratulations to Samantha Kelly! It is a ground-breaking study of Ethiopian pilgrims in Rome, especially at Santo Stefano, during the sixteenth century.

While some still argue that we kept artefacts safer in Europe, facts tell a different story:
Top UK museums admit hundreds of items lost, stolen or destroyed independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…

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…

What Texts Did the Early Jesus People Read? buff.ly/3PNZFAo

Are you working on a book on ancient Mediterranean religions that uses contemporary theory? We'd be delighted if you considered publishing it with RAM! eisenbrauns.org/books/series/b…

Eclipse diagram from Asa Smith's Illustrated Astronomy, 1849.

One of several eclipse themed prints available to buy on our online shop — publicdomainreview.org/shop/search/?q… #eclipse #solareclipse

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