Why do we even bother with endnotes--this is my personal pet peeve as a historian, I need to read the spicy, sassy, whiny footnotes immediately

Many, many congratulations!! Sending you love from ATL!!

A must read!

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Arabic words of the day:
jiḏr جذر (pl. ʾajḏār اجذار) '(square) root'
murabbaʿ 'square'
ḍilʿ ضلع (pl. ʾaḍlāʿ أضلاع) 'side (of a square)'
zāwiyah زاوية (pl. zawāyā زوايا) 'angle'
saṭḥ سطح 'surface'
wa-ḏālika mā ʾaradnā nubayyina وذلك ما اردنا ان نبين
'and this is what we want to demonstrate'

Today in Teaching: I had students find examples of Islamophobia in the news and write about how they see mis-information and racism at work in public discourses. One example is the recent reporting on the recent politicization of the Islamic Academy of Alabama (www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/u...)

Conference CfP Natures in Translation: AI, Ethics and Environmental Conservation Lancaster University, UK 1-2 October 2026 Conference funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and BRAID Abstract subm…

We are excited to share the CFP for the two-day AHRC/BRAID-funded conference, 'Natures in Translation: AI, Ethics and Environmental Conservation', at Lancaster University on October 1-2nd 2026! 🌊🤖🌎🐋 Do share!
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Check out this newly published volume on Ancient Egypt and video games, edited by Jennifer Cromwell. This volume is the first to focus solely on the portrayal of Ancient Egypt in video games.

More info at: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Arabic #WOTD:

دمع ج دموع
damʕ, pl. dumūʕ
"tears"

as in anon. Ar. Enc. for Mt Sinai (Sin. ar. 508, f. 6r)

ولنا تجديد اخر منجل المسيح صار لنا برحمته الذي هي الدموع والبكا والتوبه
"We have another renewal for Christ's sake, which is granted to us through His grace: tears, weeping, and repentance."

Arabic word of the day
ناسك
/nāsik/
"ascetic, recluse, hermit, devotee"

as in PO 16 230.6-7

هذه الناسكة كانت من بلاد الصعيد ابنة ابوين عابدين للمسيح

"This ascetic was from Upper Egypt, the daughter of Christ-worshipping parents"

("Upper Egypt" is /ṣaʕīd/, the etymon of "Sahidic")

omg i love this!! photos please!

the other Shenoute/i!

Arabic #WOTD:

لحية
liḥya
"beard"

as in anonym. Ar. Encomium for the Summit of Mt Sinai, quoting Psalm 133:2 (Sin. ar. 513, f. 127r:16):

شبه ذلك العطن السايل من الراس وعلى اللحيه لحيه هرون

"this is like the oil (?) running down from the head and onto the beard, the beard of Aaron"

I'm happy I'm not alone! That poem is confusing and makes sense both ways. In my view you can both fall and spring in both directions. Clocks are horrible.

This morning I scheduled a meeting for the wrong version of daylight savings. Total face palm moment.

that is super cool arrangement!

First Edition from 1939 for a "steal" of $1250.

Yes! Maybe time to read the room a bit given all the things!!

Preparing for a convo on modern retellings of Exodus in my HB class. We are comparing the versions of Zora Neale Hurston, Cecil B. DeMille, Ridley Scott, and Nina Paley.

I, for one, am *really* enjoying re-reading Moses Man of the Mountain. Highly recommend to re-visit in this moment in time!!

That is the sense I am getting from the whisper networks...

I know! If the flexibility exists, why communicate it at the very last second?!?

Totally get it! I'm looking forward to learning more from y'all in the future (at SBL or elsewhere!).

Very, very interesting! If you or your colleagues are planning to come to US based SBL, I hope you might consider presenting this at the DH program unit! (Please excuse the self-serving promotion!)

Annual Meeting Call for Papers Impexium Association Management Software

The Call for Papers for the 2026 Annual Meeting in Denver, CO, has been extended to 11:59PM ET on March 9. Don't miss this chance to engage the global community of biblical scholarship. buff.ly/4hRL28M

brilliant!

RACING THE CLASSICS

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS (ABD and early-career)

Racing the Classics, a Mellon-funded initiative, invites applications for its second cohort. It involves a two-week in-person Summer Institute, and an academic-year practicum over Zoom (Sept ‘26-May ‘27)

See here: www.racingtheclassics.com

CALL FOR PAPERS

Friendly reminder that the abstract deadline for this year's York Magic and Witchcraft conference is 14th March 📜 the theme is NATURE AND THE SUPERNATURAL, broadly defined 🌦️🌛🌍

Please send your abstracts to magicwitchcraft2024@gmail.com !
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*Language Summer School*

#ASPIRANTUM is offering intensive #Persian summer courses in #Yerevan from June to August 2026, with flexible 6–10 week options for beginner to upper‑intermediate learners.

Applications are now open:

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Noise. Church. Flesh.: Or, For Coltrane Church, For Pulse | Los Angeles Review of Books How is the production of noise a practice of religion — and of race?

Thinking with Ashon Crawley in my intro to religion course today: "Noise ain’t nothin’ but vibration and it is there, all around and in and through us...unending pulse...[I]t is an ethical demand, an ethical statement, about how we might be and think otherwise."

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Anna Bonnell Freidin, "Birthing Romans: Childbearing and Its Risks in Imperial Rome" (Princeton UP, 2024) - New Books Network Support H-Net | Buy Books Here | Help Support the NBN and NBN en Español on Patreon | Visit New Books Network en Español!

A new podcast episode with Anna Bonnell Freidin. "Birthing Romans sheds critical light on the diverse ways pregnancy and childbirth were understood, experienced, and managed in ancient Rome during the first three centuries"

new hobby to add along with your banjo lessons?