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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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…
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…
We are excited to share a new BeInf article, on Syriac and Garshuni graffiti at the Monastery of Macarius in the Wadi al-Natrun (Egypt). Available open access! In a future thread, we will explain how the article relates to the connected histories of Ethiopic and Syriac Christians
Two new important publications by BeInf team member Ted Erho - one together with Ben Henry - on Jannes and Jambres:
eerdmans.com/9780802884411/o…
BeInf PI Aaron Butts will deliver the opening keynote lecture at the international conference “Real and Imagined Boundaries in Late Antiquity” at the University of Ghent on Monday, 28 April. The title of his lecture is “Ezānā of Aksum: The First Christian African King”.
Very sad to hear about the passing of Former Bundespräsident Horst Köhler, who spoke last fall in support of Ethiopia and Eritrea at an event celebrating Hiob Ludolf:
horstkoehler.de/reden-texte/…
🧵 2/10 The workshop gathers a pioneering group of scholars working on entanglements, contacts, and exchanges between the Horn of Africa, on the one hand, and Egypt, Jerusalem, and beyond, on the other, to share ongoing research and to discuss emerging trends and new directions
Ted Erho's recent lecture at the TeTra seminar is now available to watch online. The topic is a letter of Alexander I of Alexandria that is preserved in Ethiopic. Check it out! 👇
youtu.be/R6gUPgEelxA?si=PIYN…
