Connected Histories of Ethiopic and Syriac

BeInf – Beyond Influence: The Connected Histories of Ethiopic and Syriac Christianity. Project based at @unihh funded by @ERC_Research

[Connected Histories of Ethiopic and Syriac @BeInfProject]

We are thrilled to announce the project BeInf! @ERC_Research @unihh

BeInf explores the connected histories of Ethiopic and Syriac Christianity!

Please follow us here for updates and announcements.

For more info, see https://t.co/Fo42WRiO3z

[Connected Histories of Ethiopic and Syriac @BeInfProject]

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:

https://t.co/oIawWcPPrd

[Connected Histories of Ethiopic and Syriac @BeInfProject]

🎉🎉🎉 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’ 🎉🎉🎉

[Sophia Dege-Müller @SophiaDeMue]

🥳 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 https://t.co/EtyaQrHeEj (English version coming)

Congratulations to all winners 🍾

[Connected Histories of Ethiopic and Syriac @BeInfProject]

Congratulations to @JeremyRBrown1 for his promotion to Curator of Eastern Christian Manuscripts at HMML
(@visitHMML)! 🎉🎉🎉

https://t.co/uXdcr9Qel6

[Connected Histories of Ethiopic and Syriac @BeInfProject]

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):

https://t.co/oPqLclDcgz

[Connected Histories of Ethiopic and Syriac @BeInfProject]

BeInf team member Ted Erho's article "Philoxenus of Mabbug in Ethiopic" has just been published open-access in Hugoye (@bethmardutho):

https://t.co/u7fMptIhfH

[Connected Histories of Ethiopic and Syriac @BeInfProject]

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):

https://t.co/p64WjISw5g

[Connected Histories of Ethiopic and Syriac @BeInfProject]

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:

https://t.co/FmdijOneBn

[Connected Histories of Ethiopic and Syriac @BeInfProject]

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.

https://t.co/Ehe6Vel11A

[Connected Histories of Ethiopic and Syriac @BeInfProject]

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:

https://t.co/slyuOHwGFQ

[Connected Histories of Ethiopic and Syriac @BeInfProject]

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

https://t.co/eHZ2nQDjoc

[Connected Histories of Ethiopic and Syriac @BeInfProject]

🎉🎉 BeInf is thrilled to announce that Dirbwork Bitsu Kassa (@DBitsu) has joined the project 🎉🎉

Warmest welcome to Dirbwork! We look forward to collaborating!

https://t.co/Vv0Vd2euOM

[Connected Histories of Ethiopic and Syriac @BeInfProject]

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!!!

https://t.co/hD8lX1pHxW

[Sophia Dege-Müller @SophiaDeMue]

For all who are intested, my book can now be downloaded from Harrassowitz website! https://t.co/RWy9TDtn86

How very exciting!! 🥳🥳🥳

[Simcha Gross @Simcha_Gross]

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)

https://t.co/Of1NiUghFn

[Connected Histories of Ethiopic and Syriac @BeInfProject]

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.”

https://t.co/NGfPGSkijH

[Connected Histories of Ethiopic and Syriac @BeInfProject]

Congratulations to BeInf team member Sophia Dege-Müller on the publication of her book!

[Sophia Dege-Müller @SophiaDeMue]

Excited, over the moon, to hold my book in my hands!!
What a wild year.

It will be available in open access soon https://t.co/RWy9TDtn86
@harrassowitz_v

[Connected Histories of Ethiopic and Syriac @BeInfProject]

Congratulations also to Dan Batovici for his ERC Consolidator grant! A most interesting project on ancient practices of authorship!

[Connected Histories of Ethiopic and Syriac @BeInfProject]

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!

[Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) @CSMC_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: https://t.co/jL4PZiGaII
#ERCCoG

[Connected Histories of Ethiopic and Syriac @BeInfProject]

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.

https://t.co/JfqlcNM74Q

[Connected Histories of Ethiopic and Syriac @BeInfProject]

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.

https://t.co/JfqlcNMEUo

[Connected Histories of Ethiopic and Syriac @BeInfProject]

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.

https://t.co/JfqlcNMEUo

[Connected Histories of Ethiopic and Syriac @BeInfProject]

Yet another new volume in the series Supplement to Aethiopica!

[Aethiopica @AethiopJournal]

We are very pleased to announce the latest Supplement to Aethiopica volume.

Edited by Solomon Gebreyes: Ethiopic Historiographical Texts

https://t.co/hduaRbsb88
Open access starting in November.