Adam Bremer-McCollum
@acbm.bsky.social
Aramaics, Coptic, Gəʕəz, Arabic, Iran. langs, Turk. langs, Old Georgian, Old Armenian 🎸🌱🍄☕️
Research Assoc., CSWR/HDS
Texts & Translations of Transcendence & Transformation (4T) https://tinyurl.com/494v9n59
The Pearlsong https://tinyurl.com/msajp4ut
Research Assoc., CSWR/HDS
Texts & Translations of Transcendence & Transformation (4T) https://tinyurl.com/494v9n59
The Pearlsong https://tinyurl.com/msajp4ut
ܠܝܬ ܠܗ ܠܫܪܪܐ ܚܒܘܫܝܐ
/layt l-ēh la-šrårå ḥḇušyå/
(heptasyllabic Syriac)
/layt l-ēh la-šrårå ḥḇušyå/
(heptasyllabic Syriac)
Truth hath no confines.
November 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
ܠܝܬ ܠܗ ܠܫܪܪܐ ܚܒܘܫܝܐ
/layt l-ēh la-šrårå ḥḇušyå/
(heptasyllabic Syriac)
/layt l-ēh la-šrårå ḥḇušyå/
(heptasyllabic Syriac)
Reposted by Adam Bremer-McCollum
one of the grimmest things I’ve ever read, but happily it does contain the phrase “mysterious constellation of brutal practices”
Pointed out by my friend @carloshasanax.bsky.social . There's something weird and unsettling about a fairly homogeneous culture spread out across Europe that then collapses into an orgy of genocide.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
www.science.org
November 27, 2025 at 1:32 PM
one of the grimmest things I’ve ever read, but happily it does contain the phrase “mysterious constellation of brutal practices”
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Arabic #WOTD:
هائل (hāʔil)
"dreadful, frightful, horrible"
as in Yefet ben Eli's Comm. on Dan. 11:1 (ed. Margoliouth):
وإن كان صوّر [الملائكة] هائلة فإنّ الله يمكن بني آدم من مشاهدتها
"Even if the forms [of angels] are horrible, God has enabled the sons of man to see them"
هائل (hāʔil)
"dreadful, frightful, horrible"
as in Yefet ben Eli's Comm. on Dan. 11:1 (ed. Margoliouth):
وإن كان صوّر [الملائكة] هائلة فإنّ الله يمكن بني آدم من مشاهدتها
"Even if the forms [of angels] are horrible, God has enabled the sons of man to see them"
November 27, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Arabic #WOTD:
هائل (hāʔil)
"dreadful, frightful, horrible"
as in Yefet ben Eli's Comm. on Dan. 11:1 (ed. Margoliouth):
وإن كان صوّر [الملائكة] هائلة فإنّ الله يمكن بني آدم من مشاهدتها
"Even if the forms [of angels] are horrible, God has enabled the sons of man to see them"
هائل (hāʔil)
"dreadful, frightful, horrible"
as in Yefet ben Eli's Comm. on Dan. 11:1 (ed. Margoliouth):
وإن كان صوّر [الملائكة] هائلة فإنّ الله يمكن بني آدم من مشاهدتها
"Even if the forms [of angels] are horrible, God has enabled the sons of man to see them"
Get /The Pearlsong/ for a year-end read! It's a pretty book, with pretty scripts, on pretty paper, for just $40, with lots of translations from Syriac, Greek, Coptic, Arabic, Parthian, and more, and bonus references to several song lyrics.
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
November 27, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Get /The Pearlsong/ for a year-end read! It's a pretty book, with pretty scripts, on pretty paper, for just $40, with lots of translations from Syriac, Greek, Coptic, Arabic, Parthian, and more, and bonus references to several song lyrics.
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
The Mountain Goats show from today's date, 2009, opens with "1 Samuel 15:23". Here's "Go down to the netherworld,
plant grapes" in Syriac (as 1sg verbs, pentasyllabic meter) 🍇
ܢ̇ܚܬ ܐ̄ܢܐ ܠܫܝܘܠ
ܢ̇ܨܒ ܐ̄ܢܐ ܥܢܒ̈ܐ
/nåḥet-nå la-šyol
nåṣeḇ-nå ʕenbē/
plant grapes" in Syriac (as 1sg verbs, pentasyllabic meter) 🍇
ܢ̇ܚܬ ܐ̄ܢܐ ܠܫܝܘܠ
ܢ̇ܨܒ ܐ̄ܢܐ ܥܢܒ̈ܐ
/nåḥet-nå la-šyol
nåṣeḇ-nå ʕenbē/
November 27, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The Mountain Goats show from today's date, 2009, opens with "1 Samuel 15:23". Here's "Go down to the netherworld,
plant grapes" in Syriac (as 1sg verbs, pentasyllabic meter) 🍇
ܢ̇ܚܬ ܐ̄ܢܐ ܠܫܝܘܠ
ܢ̇ܨܒ ܐ̄ܢܐ ܥܢܒ̈ܐ
/nåḥet-nå la-šyol
nåṣeḇ-nå ʕenbē/
plant grapes" in Syriac (as 1sg verbs, pentasyllabic meter) 🍇
ܢ̇ܚܬ ܐ̄ܢܐ ܠܫܝܘܠ
ܢ̇ܨܒ ܐ̄ܢܐ ܥܢܒ̈ܐ
/nåḥet-nå la-šyol
nåṣeḇ-nå ʕenbē/
Some Parthian taste-words from Sundermann, MKG 849ff.:
/wxašan/ "taste"
/nameδk/ "salt"
/trifšīft/ "bitterness"
/dažnagīft/ "spicyness, sharpness"
/šiftagīft/ "sweetness"
/wxašan/ "taste"
/nameδk/ "salt"
/trifšīft/ "bitterness"
/dažnagīft/ "spicyness, sharpness"
/šiftagīft/ "sweetness"
November 26, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Some Parthian taste-words from Sundermann, MKG 849ff.:
/wxašan/ "taste"
/nameδk/ "salt"
/trifšīft/ "bitterness"
/dažnagīft/ "spicyness, sharpness"
/šiftagīft/ "sweetness"
/wxašan/ "taste"
/nameδk/ "salt"
/trifšīft/ "bitterness"
/dažnagīft/ "spicyness, sharpness"
/šiftagīft/ "sweetness"
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News to me, but apparently this article is out now in #openaccess!
I study the perfuming and ritualization of spaces associated with the memory of the Prophet Muhammad in early Islamic Medina. Part of a special issue on Scents in Medieval Material Culture
www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1...
I study the perfuming and ritualization of spaces associated with the memory of the Prophet Muhammad in early Islamic Medina. Part of a special issue on Scents in Medieval Material Culture
www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1...
November 26, 2025 at 3:08 AM
News to me, but apparently this article is out now in #openaccess!
I study the perfuming and ritualization of spaces associated with the memory of the Prophet Muhammad in early Islamic Medina. Part of a special issue on Scents in Medieval Material Culture
www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1...
I study the perfuming and ritualization of spaces associated with the memory of the Prophet Muhammad in early Islamic Medina. Part of a special issue on Scents in Medieval Material Culture
www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1...
Old Georgian word of the day
შეწუხება
"annoy, bother, irritate"
as in Limonarion, ed. Abuladze, 11.2-3
შემაწუხებს ჩუენ იგი
"he's bothering us"
(შე-მ-ა-წუხ-ებ-ს pres 3s O1)
შეწუხება
"annoy, bother, irritate"
as in Limonarion, ed. Abuladze, 11.2-3
შემაწუხებს ჩუენ იგი
"he's bothering us"
(შე-მ-ა-წუხ-ებ-ს pres 3s O1)
November 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Old Georgian word of the day
შეწუხება
"annoy, bother, irritate"
as in Limonarion, ed. Abuladze, 11.2-3
შემაწუხებს ჩუენ იგი
"he's bothering us"
(შე-მ-ა-წუხ-ებ-ს pres 3s O1)
შეწუხება
"annoy, bother, irritate"
as in Limonarion, ed. Abuladze, 11.2-3
შემაწუხებს ჩუენ იგი
"he's bothering us"
(შე-მ-ა-წუხ-ებ-ს pres 3s O1)
Reposted by Adam Bremer-McCollum
Georgian compound words with ცა ca 'sky'
November 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Georgian compound words with ცა ca 'sky'
Reposted by Adam Bremer-McCollum
Georgian/Armenian word of the day:
Ge. ქურუმი kurumi 'pagan priest'
Arm. քուրմ kʿowrm 'pagan priest'
<- Syr. ܟܘܡܪܐ kūmrā 'pagan priest'
Ge. ქურუმი kurumi 'pagan priest'
Arm. քուրմ kʿowrm 'pagan priest'
<- Syr. ܟܘܡܪܐ kūmrā 'pagan priest'
November 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Georgian/Armenian word of the day:
Ge. ქურუმი kurumi 'pagan priest'
Arm. քուրմ kʿowrm 'pagan priest'
<- Syr. ܟܘܡܪܐ kūmrā 'pagan priest'
Ge. ქურუმი kurumi 'pagan priest'
Arm. քուրմ kʿowrm 'pagan priest'
<- Syr. ܟܘܡܪܐ kūmrā 'pagan priest'
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Cannot lift this up enough. It’s as if the art of printing books has been forgotten. The books I bought at SBL barely survived the train ride back to NYC.
…to the SBL book hall, where an increasing proportion of the leading publishers in our field are cranking out glued-binding, printed-paper-hardcover, absolute bargain basement print-on-demand-style books at price points just as eye-watering as ever /2
November 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Cannot lift this up enough. It’s as if the art of printing books has been forgotten. The books I bought at SBL barely survived the train ride back to NYC.
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Old Georgian word of the day ინაჴითმჯდომარეთაგანი "one of several seated at the table" [9 syllables, 20 letters]
as in Jn 13:28 (pre-Ath)
ესე არავინ ცნა ინაჴითმჯდომარეთაგანმან იესუჲს თანა
no one at the table with Jesus knew this
(τοῦτο [δὲ] οὐδεὶς ἔγνω τῶν ἀνακειμένων)
as in Jn 13:28 (pre-Ath)
ესე არავინ ცნა ინაჴითმჯდომარეთაგანმან იესუჲს თანა
no one at the table with Jesus knew this
(τοῦτο [δὲ] οὐδεὶς ἔγνω τῶν ἀνακειμένων)
December 24, 2024 at 2:38 PM
Old Georgian word of the day ინაჴითმჯდომარეთაგანი "one of several seated at the table" [9 syllables, 20 letters]
as in Jn 13:28 (pre-Ath)
ესე არავინ ცნა ინაჴითმჯდომარეთაგანმან იესუჲს თანა
no one at the table with Jesus knew this
(τοῦτο [δὲ] οὐδεὶς ἔγνω τῶν ἀνακειμένων)
as in Jn 13:28 (pre-Ath)
ესე არავინ ცნა ინაჴითმჯდომარეთაგანმან იესუჲს თანა
no one at the table with Jesus knew this
(τοῦτο [δὲ] οὐδεὶς ἔγνω τῶν ἀνακειμένων)
Reposted by Adam Bremer-McCollum
Old Georgian word of the day
თნვა
like, be happy with (inverse)
as in Limonarion, ed. Abuladze, 10.20-21
უკუეთუ გთნავს ადგილი ესე
"if you like this place"
თნვა
like, be happy with (inverse)
as in Limonarion, ed. Abuladze, 10.20-21
უკუეთუ გთნავს ადგილი ესე
"if you like this place"
November 25, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Old Georgian word of the day
თნვა
like, be happy with (inverse)
as in Limonarion, ed. Abuladze, 10.20-21
უკუეთუ გთნავს ადგილი ესე
"if you like this place"
თნვა
like, be happy with (inverse)
as in Limonarion, ed. Abuladze, 10.20-21
უკუეთუ გთნავს ადგილი ესე
"if you like this place"
Reposted by Adam Bremer-McCollum
New free anti-ICE hi-res download from Paul Kjelland! justseeds.org/graphic/ice-...
November 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
New free anti-ICE hi-res download from Paul Kjelland! justseeds.org/graphic/ice-...
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“Blues for Terry Southern”
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
“Blues for Terry Southern”
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…to the SBL book hall, where an increasing proportion of the leading publishers in our field are cranking out glued-binding, printed-paper-hardcover, absolute bargain basement print-on-demand-style books at price points just as eye-watering as ever /2
November 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
…to the SBL book hall, where an increasing proportion of the leading publishers in our field are cranking out glued-binding, printed-paper-hardcover, absolute bargain basement print-on-demand-style books at price points just as eye-watering as ever /2
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This is a late ancient (5-7th c.?) Greek account of the life of a rich woman who was raised Jewish, converted to Christianity when her parents died, lived for 20 years as a male monk named John, was discovered & made head of a woman's monastery, & was later martyred
well, what the heck. it's the tuesday before thanksgiving, and whoever is on here deserves a treat: the first new translation I've posted in a long while: the Life and Martyrdom of Susanna:
andrewjacobs.org/translations...
andrewjacobs.org/translations...
Life and Martyrdom of Susanna
andrewjacobs.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
This is a late ancient (5-7th c.?) Greek account of the life of a rich woman who was raised Jewish, converted to Christianity when her parents died, lived for 20 years as a male monk named John, was discovered & made head of a woman's monastery, & was later martyred
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Please read this opening statement by Assata Shakur from her trial in New York in 1976.
She wrote this almost 50 years ago, but it speaks so clearly to the current moment that it could have been written yesterday
ia902804.us.archive.org/17/items/A.S...
She wrote this almost 50 years ago, but it speaks so clearly to the current moment that it could have been written yesterday
ia902804.us.archive.org/17/items/A.S...
ia902804.us.archive.org
November 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Please read this opening statement by Assata Shakur from her trial in New York in 1976.
She wrote this almost 50 years ago, but it speaks so clearly to the current moment that it could have been written yesterday
ia902804.us.archive.org/17/items/A.S...
She wrote this almost 50 years ago, but it speaks so clearly to the current moment that it could have been written yesterday
ia902804.us.archive.org/17/items/A.S...
Here's one more 😉
November 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Here's one more 😉
Varying lists of heretics seen in hell in the different versions of Jn Moschos' /Leimonarion/ (№ 26)
Greek: Nestorius, Theodore, Eutyches, Apollinarius, Evagrius, Didymus, Dioscorus, Severus, Arius, Origen
Arabic: Nest., Eut., Diosc., Sev., Arius, Or.
Georgian: Nest., Arius, Eut., Evag.
Greek: Nestorius, Theodore, Eutyches, Apollinarius, Evagrius, Didymus, Dioscorus, Severus, Arius, Origen
Arabic: Nest., Eut., Diosc., Sev., Arius, Or.
Georgian: Nest., Arius, Eut., Evag.
November 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Varying lists of heretics seen in hell in the different versions of Jn Moschos' /Leimonarion/ (№ 26)
Greek: Nestorius, Theodore, Eutyches, Apollinarius, Evagrius, Didymus, Dioscorus, Severus, Arius, Origen
Arabic: Nest., Eut., Diosc., Sev., Arius, Or.
Georgian: Nest., Arius, Eut., Evag.
Greek: Nestorius, Theodore, Eutyches, Apollinarius, Evagrius, Didymus, Dioscorus, Severus, Arius, Origen
Arabic: Nest., Eut., Diosc., Sev., Arius, Or.
Georgian: Nest., Arius, Eut., Evag.
Reposted by Adam Bremer-McCollum
selda bağcan - yaylalar (Turkish psychedelic rock) 1976
https://redd.it/5shptq
https://youtu.be/zmmF8qJ6Y68
https://redd.it/5shptq
https://youtu.be/zmmF8qJ6Y68
selda bağcan - yaylalar (Turkish psychedelic rock) 1976
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 12:32 PM
selda bağcan - yaylalar (Turkish psychedelic rock) 1976
https://redd.it/5shptq
https://youtu.be/zmmF8qJ6Y68
https://redd.it/5shptq
https://youtu.be/zmmF8qJ6Y68
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My short Elements book "Literate Workers and the Production of Early Christian Literature" is now available on Cambridge Core. It was a lot of fun to learn from the exciting scholarship that's been happening and I hope that it's a useful resource for people. www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Literate Workers and the Production of Early Christian Literature
Cambridge Core - History of Religion - Literate Workers and the Production of Early Christian Literature
www.cambridge.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:20 AM
My short Elements book "Literate Workers and the Production of Early Christian Literature" is now available on Cambridge Core. It was a lot of fun to learn from the exciting scholarship that's been happening and I hope that it's a useful resource for people. www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Reposted by Adam Bremer-McCollum
This is a fascinating chapter in a fascinating book, downloadable for free! Highly recommended 🤩! And now I know why @chiaweilin.bsky.social produces such interesting stuff that crosses several disciplines - there are several Chia-Wei Lins after all! XD
November 25, 2025 at 12:06 PM
This is a fascinating chapter in a fascinating book, downloadable for free! Highly recommended 🤩! And now I know why @chiaweilin.bsky.social produces such interesting stuff that crosses several disciplines - there are several Chia-Wei Lins after all! XD