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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 1h

Job! Judaic Studies & the Medieval/Renaissance Center at Binghamton are looking for a Talmud/Medieval Rabbinics specialist! I have long been part of the Med/Ren group myself and I can vouch it is very active, supportive, and functional. Good people!

binghamton.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...

binghamton.interviewexchange.com

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 1d

From a Georgian colophon:

"The Lord knows, whenever I remember the beginning and the end of the work, my bones set to shaking, and I'm amazed how I dared to start it, or how it got finished!"

(Georgian text ⬇️)

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Lydia Bremer-McCollum @lcbmphd.bsky.social · 1d

Begins Oct. 27 2025 [+ Part 2 Offered early January 2026]

Lydia Bremer-McCollum @lcbmphd.bsky.social · 1d

My course "Learning Coptic through the Gospel of Thomas" offers students affordable Coptic instruction from an expert.

Asynchronous or Synchronous (Mondays 9am Atlanta, GA time) + Lifetime access to course videos and instruction materials authored by me

www.religiondepartment.com/learning-cop...

Learning Coptic Through the Gospel of Thomas (Level 1)

www.religiondepartment.com

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Lydia Bremer-McCollum @lcbmphd.bsky.social · 1d

My course "Learning Coptic through the Gospel of Thomas" offers students affordable Coptic instruction from an expert.

Asynchronous or Synchronous (Mondays 9am Atlanta, GA time) + Lifetime access to course videos and instruction materials authored by me

www.religiondepartment.com/learning-cop...

Learning Coptic Through the Gospel of Thomas (Level 1)

www.religiondepartment.com

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 1d

ოუფალმან უწყის ოდეს დასაბამი და აღსასრული საქმისაჲ მოვიჴსენო ძრწოლაჲ შეედების ძუალთა ჩემთა და მიკვჳრს თუ რაულად შევჰკადრე და ჴელვჰყავ ანუ რაულად სრულ იქმნა

(text in Djobadze, /Materials/, 34)

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 1d

From a Georgian colophon:

"The Lord knows, whenever I remember the beginning and the end of the work, my bones set to shaking, and I'm amazed how I dared to start it, or how it got finished!"

(Georgian text ⬇️)

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 1d

ⲧⲥⲉⲃⲟ is a causative (cf. ⲥⲁⲃⲉ "knowing, wise", ⲥⲃⲱ "teaching"), with ϯ-ⲥⲃⲱ as a synonym. Don't confuse with ⲥⲱⲃⲉ "laugh, play around, laugh at"!

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 1d

Coptic (L4) word of the day
ⲧⲥⲉⲃⲟ, ⲧⲥⲉⲃⲁ/ⲟ⸗
"teach"

as in CBKph 423.26-27 (ed. Gardner, BeDuhn, Dilley)
ⲁⲩⲧⲥⲉⲃⲁⲩ ⲁⲧⲭⲱⲣⲁ ⲙ̅ⲡⲟⲩⲁⲓ̈ⲛⲉ ⲧϩⲉ ⲉⲧⲉⲥϣⲟⲟⲡ ⲙ̅ⲙⲁⲥ
ⲁⲩⲧⲥⲉⲃⲁⲩ ⲁⲛ ⲁⲉⲙⲛⲧⲉ ⲙⲛ̅ⲡⲙⲁ ⲉⲧϥ̅ϣⲟⲟⲡ ⲛ̅ϩⲏⲧϥ̅

"they taught them what the land of light is like;
they taught them, too, about hell and where it is"

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 2d

That's right! Both he and Duane have long solos, and it's an extended jam throughout.

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 2d

The Jacob Intercisus (aka "Jacob the Persian") martyrdom is such a great text, and known in several languages. I've read it with students in Syriac, Arabic, Gəʕəz, Armenian, and Coptic (S & B), and I published an article on it a few years ago.

brill.com

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 2d

Here's a great live version that's twice as long (from about a month before Duane died)

Blue Sky (Live)

YouTube video by Allman Brothers Band - Topic

youtu.be

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 2d

Old Uyghur word of the day
/kıdıg/
"shore, bank"

as in Diam. Sutra, ed. Zieme, A₂ 18-19

/köŋüllärin amırtgurup nırvanlıg ıntın kıdıgka ärtgäli uyur/

"they will be able to give their hearts rest to cross over to nirvana's shore on the other side."

ms image: turfan.bbaw.de/dta/u/images...

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Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 3d

Michele O'Malley - Know Yourself [US - Psych Folk, Easy Listening] (1969)
https://redd.it/qtbfq0
https://youtu.be/TB0YmZqv3mk

Michele O'Malley - Know Yourself [US - Psych Folk, Easy Listening] (1969)

youtu.be

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 3d

Janis Joplin died 55 years ago this weekend

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 4d

"The Olde, Old, very Olde Man or Thomas Par" Looking good for his alleged 152 years of age here in 1635. (British Museum)

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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 5d

In sincerity I did log on for a reason. A new issue of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies is out, edited by colleague/friend Marcel Elias. It's about how to do postcolonial medieval studies bigger and better. You'll like it. (I'm in there). Go read.
read.dukeupress.edu/jmems/issue/...

Volume 55 Issue 3 | Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies | Duke University Press

read.dukeupress.edu

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · 23d

If you are interested in the history of book, check out this phenomenal exhibit curated by the wonderful Martin Heijdra at Princeton. It is a model exhibit in so many ways, covering different parts of the world, so many languages, and, images are in IIIF
dpul.princeton.edu/global-book-...

Forms & Function

dpul.princeton.edu

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TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar @tetraseminar.bsky.social · 5d

Next Thursday 9 October, Eleanor Baker (@eleanormaybaker.bsky.social) will explore the world of Middle English book curses. All welcome!

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 5d

The absolute velvety blackness was essential. In the end, I repainted the whole thing in acrylics, over the pastel rendering.

The art was later used for the cover for Beneath the Remains by the band Sepultura. 4/4

www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/or...

Book cover for TALES FROM THE NIGHTSIDE by Charles L. Grant, published by Arkham House

Album cover for BENEATH THE REMAINS by Sepultura, distributed by Roadrunner Records

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John Thorn @johnthorn.bsky.social · 6d

As three winner-take-all games unfold on this Thursday, these snips may be worth viewing, again. www.pbs.org/kenburns/unu...

Baseball

From the playlist "Baseball" on Ken Burns UNUM.

www.pbs.org

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Marilù Papandreou @marilupapandreou.bsky.social · 7d

Fresh off the press! A paper in a wonderful volume edited by Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social and Miira Tuominen ("Animals in Greek, Arabic, and Latin Philosophy"). This has been the most fun I had in writing a paper, as it combines my favourite topics: Aristotle, animals, and artefacts.

Marilù Papandreou, Builders and Weavers of the Animal Kingdom: Non-Human Poiêsis in Aristotle and the Ancient Commentators - PhilPapers

philpapers.org

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Old English Wordhord @oewordhord.bsky.social · 6d

a-sēon, str.v: to look at or upon, set eyes on (something). (ah-SAY-on / a-ˈseːɔn)
Image: Peterborough Bestiary; England (Peterborough), c. 1300-1310; @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social MS 53, f. 197v.
#OldEnglish #WOTD

Medieval manuscript image of a grey cat curiously gazing down its nose, giving it a cross-eyed appearance.

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 6d

And even shorter with 12" 45s, but they sound great

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Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 6d

The Fallouts - Love That Bomb[1964]
https://redd.it/7mg8o7
https://youtu.be/7gWICJ3SWUc

The Fallouts - Love That Bomb[1964]

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 6d

Old Georgian word of the day
სარეკელი
bell, ≈gong, semantron

as in Jn Moschos, Leimonarion, ed. Abuladze, 6.5
ვითარცა დაჰრეკა დეკანოზმან სარეკელსა
"when the deacon sounded the semantron"

Both the noun and the verb derive from the root რეკ- "knock, hit" (cf. Fähnrich, Etym., 343).

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