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 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.

[Connected Histories of Ethiopic and Syriac @BeInfProject]

@MadUncleDeeJay Arabic language written in the Syriac script

[Connected Histories of Ethiopic and Syriac @BeInfProject]

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

[Connected Histories of Ethiopic and Syriac @BeInfProject]

Here is a link:

https://t.co/eKGmR0W8bV

Pdf:

https://t.co/bEL8MSL8yv

[Connected Histories of Ethiopic and Syriac @BeInfProject]

Check out this important new volume!

[Aethiopica @AethiopJournal]

We are very excited about the latest SUPPLEMENT to Aethiopica:

Slavery and the Slave Trade in Ethiopian Studies

‼️Its available in print and open access: https://t.co/NAnWLnykqJ

[Connected Histories of Ethiopic and Syriac @BeInfProject]

Check out the fascinating PhD project of @hensley_mi -- a friend of BeInf -- on Ethiopian and Eritrean book lists and how they can be used to reconstruct medieval libraries in the Horn of Africa

[Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) @CSMC_Hamburg]

‘We like lists because we don’t want to die’, said Umberto Eco. What drives our fascination with lists? PhD researcher Michael Hensley explores the meaning of Ethiopian and Eritrean book lists—offering glimpses into communities that would otherwise be lost
https://t.co/w42vKCDsiD

[Connected Histories of Ethiopic and Syriac @BeInfProject]

Check out this exciting new article by BeInf team member Sophia Dege-Müller @SophiaDeMue - together with @MinasMonier - that deals with the Ethiopic reception of a Christian Arabic text

[Sophia Dege-Müller @SophiaDeMue]

Excited to share the article that @MinasMonier and I wrote on the Introduction to the Gospels by ibn al-Assal and its Arabic and Ethiopic traditions 🤩
https://t.co/j1DNFcpVyn