Thank you Phil!!

Thank you Laura!!

Thank you, Adam! And for your help along the way.

Thank you!!

Well after many years of work, I am happy to announce that I successfully defended my dissertation (with distinction) at Saint Louis University this morning.

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Ye see an old man cut down to the stump; leaning on a shivered lance; propped up on a lonely foot. ’Tis Ahab

a try in Syriac:

ܒܩܝ̈ܢܕܘܢܘ ܕܠܐ ܡܢܝܢ ܠܗ ܠܐܬܪܐ ܗ̇ܘ ܕܡܢܗ ܫ̇ܢ̣ܝܢ܃ ܠܐܝܟܐ ܕܗ̇ܢܘܢ ܕܫܒ̣ܩܢ ܐܢܘܢ ܟܕ ܢܛܝܪܝܢ܃ ܗܐ ܐܝܬܝܗܘܢ ܗ̄ܘܘ ܒܟܠ ܙܒܢ ܩܕܡܝܢ

/b-qindunu ḏ-lå menyån, l-eh l-ʔaṯrå haw d-men-eh šannin, l-ʔaykå ḏ-hånon da-šḇaqn-ennon kaḏ nṭirin, hå ʔiṯay-hon-waw b-ḵol-zḇan qḏåm-ayn/

@acbm.bsky.social this made me think of you!

Made a purchase at Staples that came out to $19.79. I said to the cashier, “great song aye?”

He stared and me and then shrugged. I guess I’m getting old.

I wish I still lived in StL!

Truly Shakespearean level innovation

Seamus Heaney

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I'm just thrilled to have this piece up at @defector.com, on Joshua Wheeler's debut novel, THE HIGH HEAVEN, from @graywolfpress.bsky.social. I loved this book, and getting to work with @brandyjensen.bsky.social and have this run at Defector is a real dream come true. Gift link below, but subscribe!

Picasso’s “The four faces” or, as I like to call it, “the corpus attributed to Isaac of Antioch”

You know what, I’m going to tell myself this from now on!

I just got Brocked* again

*thinking you’re on to something only to learn that Sebastian Brock has already written something on it

Underrated record.

flyer for zoom talk by Susan Ashbrook Harvey. February 5, 6:30-8:00 PM ET via Zoom Singing Women: A Different History Lecture by the Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins

Oh, I can't wait for this!

Can anyone point me to a good resource on patronage in late antiquity? Even better if it addresses the eastern Mediterranean and manuscripts produced therein.

Turns out writing is difficult without access to a research library. Who knew?

And Arthur Russell, kinda

You as well!

Thought this was a Nick Drake track at first. I dig it.

You’re in my thoughts and prayers often.

AI has entered the “topics I don’t want to talk about at the holiday family gathering” category.

Ah, the world! Oh, the world!

Perhaps one day Microsoft will have the technology required to make footnotes automatically match the font you're using in the text of the Word document. But apparently that is far too advanced for now.

Very sad to hear this. Prof. Trout presented on the panel a colleague and I organized at this past NAPS. I had long admired his work and thus was slightly intimidated, but he was only kind, brilliant, and encouraging.

Fishin’ advice from Ephrem: “Ease off. Give the fish some time to wear itself out…”

48th Madrasha on Faith