Leo is maybe just a man after my own heart

I would love to be pope because it seems like you mostly get to travel around Africa and the Middle East

(Kanye voice) I feel like Sabbatai

watching the rabbinist slowly nod off in this un-air-conditioned Syriac lecture

Anti-nomian nomos club

לב מלך ביד ה׳

MGMT on the speakers at the kosher grocery >>>>

Many get defensive when they hear others talk about the joy of eating kitniyot. I sit my ashki ass down and listen

'Portrait de femme en Flore' An intriguing 17thC (c. 1600-1650) painting by an unknown artist from the Louvre.

Inside you there are two Wolfsons

AGDAL. « Per Africae gentes, deserta atque loca ». New perspectives on ancient Amazigh onomastics (toponymy, ethnonymy, anthroponymy) and Amazigh historical linguistics. Barcino Monographica Orientalia 29, Series Libyca 1, IPOA, Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, 265 pp.

Important new publication of historical Berber lingusitics, esp. onomastics. Edited and organized by the brilliant Carles Múrcia (not on here, I think), with, among many others, articles by @lameensouag.bsky.social and myself.

You met me at a very Sephardi time in my life

I accept that I am in essence a lame white nerd based on the irrefutable evidence that when I listen to Vampire Weekend songs i feel them in my soul

'Mulier amicta sole et luna sub pedibus ei[u]s et sup[e]r caput corona stellarum duodecim'.

BL Add 11695; Beatus of Liébana, Commentary on the Apocalypse; 1091-1109 CE; Spain, N.; ff.147v, 148r
@blmedieval.bsky.social

Portrait of a young man in a mitre, Pieter Van Mol, c. 1630-1640. (Louvre)

All you need to know about Camus to understand he was kind of stupid is that he tried to do the “both sides have an equal claim to this land and we have to learn to live together” thing but with FRENCH ALGERIA

"... a history whose passage is almost imperceptible, that of man in his relationship to his environment, a history in which all change is slow, a history of constant repetition" (Braudel)

pic of books on a shelf, tan, blue, pale yellow, and green. the tan one says on the spine FUCK ‘ARABIYA

you met me at a very Nietzschean time in my life

burying a rabbi in the sand and making a statue of Dionysus out of driftwood

deep esoteric Buddhist syncretism: medieval Rhineland Jews figuring out that "emptiness" and "Jesus" have the same gematria

anti-Judaism used to be a erudite affair

"...the [late medieval] Christian populace frequently accused Jews of engaging in magic and witchcraft, an accusation which though not fully borne out by facts nevertheless undoubtedly represented a kernel of historical reality." (Baron)

I want to be able to tell my grandchildren that I once spoke Arabic better than English

- three Scholem biographies published in the last two years
- Benjamin biography this year based almost exclusively on Scholem correspondence
- new Scholem biography coming out next year

Are people ever gonna get tired of the Scholem/Benjamin thing or are we gonna keep getting four books published on that every year

charakteres between Greek and Jewish magic

Midrash: "a genre which systematically erases the distance between philology and ethics"

Dew in God’s curls

there is no such thing as western civilisation