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Check out this exciting new article by BeInf team member Sophia Dege-Müller @SophiaDeMue - together with @MinasMonier - that deals with the Ethiopic reception of a Christian Arabic text
Check out this exciting new article by BeInf team member Sophia Dege-Müller @SophiaDeMue - together with @MinasMonier - that deals with the Ethiopic reception of a Christian Arabic text
BeInf sends huge congratulations 🎉 to Verena Krebs (@KrebsVerena), who was recently appointed Professor for Medieval History at Ruhr University Bochum. Her research is yet another great example of the type of connected approach for which BeInf advocates. news.rub.de/leute/2025-07-…
The 14th Symposium Syriacum and 12th Conference of Christian Arabic Studies will take place in Bucharest on Aug. 3-7, 2026. Consider submitting an abstract. BeInf PI Aaron Butts will deliver one of the keynote lectures. symposium-syriacum-2026-bucharest.com
BeInf team member Sophia Dege-Müller is giving a lecture on Ethiopian hexameral literature. Her book on the topic will appear later this year in the series Äthiopistische Forschungen (Harrassowitz).
BeInf team member Sophia Dege-Müller is giving a lecture on Ethiopian hexameral literature. Her book on the topic will appear later this year in the series Äthiopistische Forschungen (Harrassowitz).
Check out this volume, edited by Melissa Moreton and Suzanne Akbari (@the_IAS), to be published later this year Aaron Butts has a paper, together with Thelma Thomas, on a Syriac manuscript analyzed through a 'connected histories' approach. degruyterbrill.com/document/isbn/…
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…
We at BeInf are very happy to hear that University of Hamburg’s excellence cluster ‘Understanding Written Artefacts’ has received a seven-year extension! 🎉
We at BeInf are very happy to hear that University of Hamburg’s excellence cluster ‘Understanding Written Artefacts’ has received a seven-year extension! 🎉
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
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
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”.
For those working in Syriac, check out this call for a 4-year postdoc position in the exciting project of @DanBatovici
For those working in Syriac, check out this call for a 4-year postdoc position in the exciting project of @DanBatovici
Check out this new article by BeInf team member @SophiaDeMue! It is on August Haffner, who among other things published on the Ethiopic Reception of the Syriac Abgar Legend
Check out this new article by BeInf team member @SophiaDeMue! It is on August Haffner, who among other things published on the Ethiopic Reception of the Syriac Abgar Legend
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!!!
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!!!
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…
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…
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.
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.

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