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Paul Dilley
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Erling B. "Jack" Holtsmark Associate Professor in the Classics, Departments of Classics and Religious Studies, University of Iowa. Digital Humanist. Opinions are my own.
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Worth repeating: "University presses are essential infrastructure for the humanities & should be financially supported in the same way that other higher education inter-institutional infrastructure is." Some powerful examples here:
Institutions and funders must recognize the contributions of university presses to the humanities infrastructure (opinion)
Recognizing the university press community’s essential contributions to that infrastructure will be crucial as institutions and funders plan for the future, write Charles Watkinson and Melissa Pitts.
bit.ly
October 9, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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New guest post on Membra Dispersa Sinaitica: Habib Ibrahim identifies the Sinaitic parent codex of yet another leaf from the Mingana Collection in Birmingham.
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Reuniting James Intercisus: A Mingana Leaf Rejoins Sinai Ar. 369
A guest post by Habib Ibrahim* 1. While working on the Arabic dossier of James Intercisus,1 a Syrian-Persian saint of the 5th century, I came across a fragment in the Mingana Collection in Birmingham ...
medisi.hypotheses.org
October 6, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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New issue of Journal of Early Christian Studies Vol. 33, No. 3 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/55688 @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Breaking News: Sarah Mullally will become the next archbishop of Canterbury, the first woman to lead the Church of England.
Sarah Mullally Is Named as First Female Archbishop of Canterbury
Sarah Mullally, the bishop of London, will lead the Church of England. She has been a vocal supporter of the rights of women in the church.
nyti.ms
October 3, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Job posting: Research Associate - Coptic in Manchester, University of Manchester. Applications due October 31, 2025
maryjahariscenter.org/blog/researc...
Research Associate - Coptic in Manchester, University of Manchester | Mary Jaharis Center
maryjahariscenter.org
September 29, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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🧵 Learn more about HMML’s collections—approximately 486,000 manuscripts photographed in partnership with more than 1,500 repositories worldwide: hmml.org/collections/
Collections
HMML Collections page
hmml.org
September 24, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Conference announcement/call for papers! You’ll note that there’s no theme beyond “new research on apocryphal Christian literature.” We truly just want to hear about whatever interests you most in apocryphal Christian literature right now. More info here: www.nasscal.com/meetings/
September 24, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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The UC Berkeley School of Information is hiring an assistant professor in the broad field of Information--including areas of info seeking/retrieval, digital humanities, cultural analytics, info viz, & philosophy of information (among others). Deadline Nov 1! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05014
Assistant Professor - Information - School of Information
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
September 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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BookTok loves marginalia and neuroscience is down for it: 🧪 💙📚 www.scientificamerican.com/article/go-a...
The TikTok Trend of Writing in Margins Is Based on Real Neuroscience
Annotating the margins of books is an important part of deep reading and has a long legacy of merit in both science and literature
www.scientificamerican.com
September 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Came home from traveling and found this in my post!!

What a strange feeling to finally have the actual published book in my hands. 🤯

brill.com/display/titl...
September 22, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Just out & FREE to read for 2 weeks!! www.cambridge.org/core/element...
The Pseudo-Clementine Tradition
Cambridge Core - History of Religion - The Pseudo-Clementine Tradition
www.cambridge.org
September 22, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Cross-Cultural Philology – Stellenausschreibungen im Exzellenzcluster: www.lmu.de/crosscultura...
Geplante Forschungsprojekte
Hier finden Sie eine Übersicht aller Forschungsvorhaben und der zugehörigen Stellenausschreibungen im Exzellenzcluster Cross-Cultural Philology.
www.lmu.de
September 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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New book: Antje Bosselmann-Ruickbie, Falko Daim, and Susanne Greiff, eds., The Preslav Treasure from Bulgaria (Tenth Century): Historical Context, Excavations, Objects and Technology (Romisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, 2025) maryjahariscenter.org/blog/the-pre...
The Preslav Treasure from Bulgaria (Tenth Century): Historical Context, Excavations, Objects and Technology | Mary Jaharis Center
maryjahariscenter.org
September 22, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Very happy to see the BL digitized manuscripts continue to come back online!
More manuscripts are coming to the British Library's online site www.bl.uk/collection/d...

And, erm, how can I say this nicely? If you have a cheeky script that downloads images from the site, please build in some delays so that you don't kill the servers. Play nice, innit!
Digitised manuscripts and archives - British Library
View more than 2,000 of our digitised manuscripts and archival documents, including the Sherborne Missal and Octateuch, Four Gospels and Synodicon.
www.bl.uk
September 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Funding opportunity: 2026–2027 Metropolitan Museum of Art Fellowships. Applications due October 17, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/2026202...
2026–2027 Metropolitan Museum of Art Fellowships | Mary Jaharis Center
Met fellowships are awarded to junior scholars, postdoctoral and senior academics, and museum professionals for independent study or research.
maryjahariscenter.org
September 18, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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When higher ed is under attack and things look bleak, I find creating academic networks helps me to feel a bit less alone and helpless
Delighted to be participating in another VECSS (Virginia Early Christian Studies Seminar), spotlighting work from some dear friends and colleagues. This fall we are hosted by Candace Buckner at VTech!
September 18, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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New pod! Matthew D. C. Larsen and Mark Letteney on Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration

You can now subscribe to the show too.

Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2Vys...
September 15, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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New pod! Mike interviews Tina Shepardson about A Memory of Violence: Syriac Christianity and the Radicalization of Religious Difference in Late Antiquity.

Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0HyD...
September 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM
What would Evagrius say?
September 14, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Ethiopia opens Africa's largest hydropower project, the Blue Nile's Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam — a milestone that's sparking alarm in neighboring Sudan and Egypt.
Ethiopia inaugurates Africa's biggest dam amid regional tensions
Ethiopia opens Africa's largest hydropower project, the Blue Nile's Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam — a milestone that's sparking alarm in neighboring Sudan and Egypt.
n.pr
September 9, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Call for contributors: Wikidata Across the Humanities: Datasets, Methodologies, Reuse, special collection of the Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD). Submissions due September 15, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/wikidat...
Wikidata Across the Humanities: Datasets, Methodologies, Reuse | Mary Jaharis Center
maryjahariscenter.org
September 2, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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The NASSCAL First Fridays Workshop 2025/2026 season begins Sept. 5 at 12:00 (EDT) with Julia Snyder's essay "Apostles Behaving Badly? Violence in the Acts of Philip." Contact us if you would like to participate.
August 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM