🐝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
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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