Huge congratulations 🎉 to BeInf collaborator Simcha Gross on this well deserved book award!!! The book is an outstanding example of the type of connected approach for which BeInf advocate.

Very sad to hear about the passing of Former Bundespräsident Horst Köhler, who spoke last fall in support of Ethiopia and Eritrea at an event celebrating Hiob Ludolf: horstkoehler.de/reden-texte/ve…

SAD NEWS: Bentley Layton, once colleague and long-time friend of PI Aaron Butts, has passed away. He was a tremendous scholar and also a very special person. He will be dearly missed. archives.news.yale.edu/v29.n20/story7…

Congratulations to BeInf team member Sophia Dege-Müller, along with other colleagues, on the publication of an important new edited volume on manuscripts from the Mediterranean, with contributions on both Syriac and Ethiopic manuscripts. And the volume is open access!!!

Check out this new article by BeInf team member Sophia Dege-Müller! It is on August Haffner, who among other things published on the Ethiopic Reception of the Syriac Abgar Legend

For those working in Syriac, check out this call for a 4-year postdoc position in the exciting project of Dan Batovici

BeInf PI Aaron Butts will deliver the opening keynote lecture at the international conference “Real and Imagined Boundaries in Late Antiquity” at the University of Ghent on Monday, 28 April. The title of his lecture is “Ezānā of Aksum: The First Christian African King”.

Check out the newest volume of AETHIOPICA! All the articles are available freely online in open access. This includes an article by members of the BeInf team on an Ethiopic 'Homily on Peter' attributed to Ephrem, which ultimately goes back to Syriac -- expect a thread soon

We at BeInf are very happy to hear that University of Hamburg’s excellence cluster ‘Understanding Written Artefacts’ has received a seven-year extension! 🎉

Congratulations to Bar Kribus for winning the Dan David Prize for his work on Ethiopian archaeology and the history and material culture of the Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jews). Well deserved! dandavidprize.org/winners/bar-kr…