BeInf – Beyond Influence: The Connected Histories of Ethiopic and Syriac Christianity. Project based at @unihh funded by @ERC_Research
Hamburg, Germany
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We are thrilled to announce the project BeInf! @ERC_Research @unihh
BeInf explores the connected histories of Ethiopic and Syriac Christianity!
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For more info, see aai.uni-hamburg.de/beinf
BeInf team members Jonas Karlsson's and @SophiaDeMue's article "The Ethiopic Version of the Introduction to the Psalms by Eusebius of Caesarea (CAe 6719)" has just been published open access in Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum:
degruyterbrill.com/de/docume…
🎉🎉🎉 Many congratulations to BeInf team member @SophiaDeMue, who won an @ERC_Research starting grant, of almost 2.5 million EUR, for her project ‘Beta Esrael Heritage and Texts: A multilayered approach to the literary and manuscript tradition of the Ethiopian Jews’ 🎉🎉🎉
🥳 I am excited and through the moon to be part of this year's @ERC_Research Starting grant winners! 🤩
Time to celebrate!
Read a first description here uni-hamburg.de/newsroom/pres… (English version coming)
Congratulations to all winners 🍾
Congratulations to @JeremyRBrown1 for his promotion to Curator of Eastern Christian Manuscripts at HMML
(@visitHMML)! 🎉🎉🎉
hmml.org/stories/dr-jeremy-r…
BeInf team member Ted Erho's recent article "Some fragmentary witnesses to the Ethiopic 'Homiliary for the Year'" is available open access in Aethiopica (@AethiopJournal):
journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/…
BeInf team member Ted Erho's article "Philoxenus of Mabbug in Ethiopic" has just been published open-access in Hugoye (@bethmardutho):
hugoye.bethmardutho.org/arti…
BeInf PI Aaron Butts’s article "Syriac-Script Inscriptions and Graffiti at the Monastery of St. Antony (Egypt)" has just been published open-access in Hugoye (@bethmardutho):
hugoye.bethmardutho.org/arti…
BeInf PI Aaron Butts’s article "Ezana of Aksum: The First Christian African King" has just been published in Aethiopica (@AethiopJournal). It is available open access at:
journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/…
Congratulations to @JeremyRBrown1 (@visitHMML) for his book Jonah in the Ethiopic Biblical Tradition, which is published in the new series Ethiopic Bible and Related Literature at Mohr Siebeck. It is available open access thanks to the support of BeInf.
mohrsiebeck.com/en/book/jona…
We are excited to share a new article, co-authored by Thelma Thomas and BeInf PI Aaron Butts, on a Syriac NT manuscript and its textiles. The article exemplifies the methodological approach of BeInf that challenges disciplinary silos. Read here:
doi.org/10.1515/978368924001…
Now available on YouTube: a lecture on “Ezana of Aksum: The First Christian African King” given at the University of Toronto (@UofTNMC ) by BeInf Project PI Aaron Butts
youtube.com/watch?v=nR8NO_7F…
🎉🎉 BeInf is thrilled to announce that Dirbwork Bitsu Kassa (@DBitsu) has joined the project 🎉🎉
Warmest welcome to Dirbwork! We look forward to collaborating!
aai.uni-hamburg.de/beinf/04-…
BeInf team member Sophia Dege-Müller's new book on the Aksimaros (the Ge'ez translation of the Hexaemeron by Pseudo-Epiphanius of Salamis) is now available open access! Happy reading!!!
harrassowitz-verlag.de/ddo/a…
For all who are intested, my book can now be downloaded from Harrassowitz website! harrassowitz-verlag.de/Der_K…
How very exciting!! 🥳🥳🥳
Connected Histories of Ethiopic and Syriac retweeted
Great episode of Byzantium & Friends w/Aaron Butts!
While centering on Aksum, it engages key questions in the study of ancient empires, such as how to historicize religious imagery in imperial self-presentation, & the proxy war model (e.g. Bowersock)
open.spotify.com/episode/4gk…
BeInf PI Aaron Butts appears in the podcast “Byzantium & Friends,” hosted by Anthony Kaldellis, in an episode on “Ezana of Aksum: The First Christian African King.”
podbean.com/ew/pb-m99d6-19f6…
Congratulations to BeInf team member Sophia Dege-Müller on the publication of her book!
Excited, over the moon, to hold my book in my hands!!
What a wild year.
It will be available in open access soon harrassowitz-verlag.de/Der_K…
@harrassowitz_v
Congratulations also to Dan Batovici for his ERC Consolidator grant! A most interesting project on ancient practices of authorship!
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Congratulations to colleagues at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures on their ERC Consolidator grants! Great to have new projects on India and the Silk Road here at the University of Hamburg!
Congratulations to Suganya Anandakichenin and Márton Ver! The two CSMC researchers have been awarded @ERC_Research Consolidator Grants today. Here’s what they plan to do with it: uhh.de/csmc-erc
#ERCCoG
Don’t forget to register for a hybrid (zoom) lecture by Aaron Butts on Ezana’s adoption of Christianity, tomorrow, December 2, at the University of Toronto.
nmc.utoronto.ca/events/nmc-l…
BeInf Project PI Aaron Butts delivers a lecture on “Ezana of Aksum: The First Christian African King” at the University of Toronto on December 2.
It is a hybrid event (zoom): registration is necessary.
nmc.utoronto.ca/events/nmc-l…
BeInf Project PI Aaron Butts delivers a lecture on “Ezana of Aksum: The First Christian African King” at the University of Toronto on December 2.
It is a hybrid event (zoom): registration is necessary.
nmc.utoronto.ca/events/nmc-l…
Yet another new volume in the series Supplement to Aethiopica!
We are very pleased to announce the latest Supplement to Aethiopica volume.
Edited by Solomon Gebreyes: Ethiopic Historiographical Texts
harrassowitz-verlag.de/Ethio…
Open access starting in November.
