Melonie Schmierer-Lee

Cairo Genizah - Cambridge - beekeeping

[Cambridge University Library @theUL]

🐝Just in time for #WorldBeeDay, we have a new Queen Bee at the UL hive! 🐝

This queen, who is about 6 days old, needs a name. Can you help us think of one?

📷Photos by Melonie Schmierer-Lee

#CambridgeUniversityLibary

[Amir Ashur @ashur_amir]

If you happen to be in Tokyo on 7-8 March: I will deliver 4 workshops about the geniza. We will read letters, responsa and fragments from a book by Abraham Maimuni in Hebrew.
On 10-12 of March another 4, different workshops in Doshisha University in Kyoto.

[Dr Jill Whitelock @JillWhitelock]

After dark at @theUL.

[Amir Ashur @ashur_amir]

It's still December, almost Hanukka, and Marc Michaels has produced an impressively named Fragment of the Month – could this be the earliest Esther scroll we have (not just in the Genizah)?

https://t.co/tDe0fZIxad

[Melonie Schmierer-Lee @m_schmierer]

The current British Museum exhibition ‘Silk Roads’ features 7 Genizah fragments from the Cambridge collection, reunited with an inscribed wood panel from the Ben Ezra synagogue:
https://t.co/EZW1EgzlxN

[Mara Nicosia @nicosia_mara]

Francis caught while he was about to leave a little Christmas gift on one of the contributors' copies.. stopped right on time!

[Lars Chittka @LChittka]

A honeybee with two differently-coloured pollens (from the German Bee Journal). Bees are by no means preprogrammed to be flower-constant. If flowers of two species are equally rewarding & in close proximity, bees sometimes visit both

[Melonie Schmierer-Lee @m_schmierer]

The first egg of Eggatha Christie (normal size one for scale)

[Ancient Jew Review @ancientjew]

New podcast episode featuring A.J. Berkowitz's A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023). https://t.co/O9sTFhpaDK

[Melonie Schmierer-Lee @m_schmierer]

New #Genizah interview with Drew Longacre, who is using Genizah manuscripts for a new critical edition of the Psalms. #Bible #Hebrew

https://t.co/U1gwmFw98S

[Medievalists.net @Medievalists]

New Medieval Books - here is the pile we are working through - any of these books you are interested in? #books

[Melonie Schmierer-Lee @m_schmierer]

@NPosegay @gorgiaspress

[Melonie Schmierer-Lee @m_schmierer]

@NPosegay @gorgiaspress In the exhibition hall, in the 700s!

[Melonie Schmierer-Lee @m_schmierer]

@bethmardutho @gorgiaspress @NPosegay @nposegay will not be there, unfortunately.

[Charles Meadows @cmeadows37]

Digging into this amazing piece of scholarship from Amy Balogh. 😮😮

[Westminster College, Cambridge @WestCollCambs]

This new book recently arrived for our library!
@NPosegay and @m_schmierer of the Genizah Research Unit at @theUL give a visual tour of some of the unique and amazing manuscripts from the Cairo Genizah, (re)discovered by Solomon Schechter and our own #SistersOfSinai in 1896.

[Brill Jewish Studies @Brill_Jewish]

Congratulations to Professor Ben Outhwaite on his appointment as Professor of Genizah Studies at Cambridge, recognizing his scholarship and leadership. We’re honored he co-edits our Cambridge Genizah Studies series (https://t.co/5e3zh5AMqv). Learn more: https://t.co/5renQomw7X

[Amir Ashur @ashur_amir]

https://t.co/4Urp6nySLw

[Dr Jill Whitelock @JillWhitelock]

Happy Birthday to Sir Giles Gilbert Scott’s @theUL! Looking good after 90 years. 🥳

[Beth Mardutho @bethmardutho]

Want to learn Syriac this winter? Are you in the UK or Europe? Our director and malphono extraordinaire @GeorgeKiraz is heading to Cambridge in January to teach a week-long intensive.

Reserve your place now!
https://t.co/zXmLxtVRKu