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Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School and the College | Syriac literature, late antiquity, biblical interpretation | Editor-in-Chief ancientjewreview.com
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A fitting tribute to an exemplary scholar and teacher - he will be missed in Swift Hall and beyond www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...

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This year I'm on the #aar steering committees of the Middle Eastern Christianity Unit & Religion and Memory Unit. Check out our CfP(s) & consider submitting a proposal! MECU June: papers.aarweb.org/group/14948 MECU Nov.: papers.aarweb.org/group/14947 R&M Nov.: papers.aarweb.org/group/14993

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well hellooooo

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Friends submitting proposals for AAR - please check out the call from the Eastern Orthodox Studies Unit led by @riccardiswartz.bsky.social and @phildorroll.bsky.social #aar2025

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We begin 2025 with a #pedagogy article on public scholarship, teaching, and research from Emily Chesley and Rebekah Haigh, co-hosts of the podcast Women Who Went Before @rebekahjhaigh.bsky.social

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I'm excited to ring in the new year by sharing the first review of my book (by Yulia Minets), published in the Journal of Early Christian Studies. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

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Farewell 2024! These are the 10 most-read essays this year on Ancient Jew Review: www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2024/12...

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the NAPS membership sign-up/renewal process has some changes this round! 1) graduated dues based on income 2) link to our standard of conduct policies 3) collecting demographic information to improve inclusion going forward!

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“A good college education opens pathways for transformative achievement. And by doing so, the school inspires still more people to change their life trajectories through learning.” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/27/o...

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New podcast ep! Mike Motia interviews Blake Leyerle about what it meant for ordinary believers to live a Christian life in late antiquity? Featuring In Christians at Home: John Chrysostom and Domestic Rituals in Fourth-Century Antioch (Penn State University Press, 2024). https://buff.ly/3BUEKaO

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Today on AJR, Fr. Andrew Younan writes about his new translation of Narsai's verse homilies www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2024/12... @younan.bsky.social

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“Narcissists are continually looking into the mirror, painting themselves, gazing at themselves, but the best advice in front of a mirror is to laugh at ourselves. It is good for us.” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/o...

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I made a starter pack for specialists in Eastern Christian Studies- check it out, share with others, and let me know who else to add! go.bsky.app/8a9jSuF

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www.nytimes.com/2024/12/10/b...

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Update: reading over the abstracts submitted for this session, and I’m so excited. #NAPS2025 is going to be 🔥🔥🔥

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A great thread about Narsai, resources for studying him, and recent scholarship - can’t wait to get the new volume from @younan.bsky.social and teach with it! #narsai

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Very exciting to see this in print - it’s real! #aarsbl2024 #narsai #syriac

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Interesting reflections on our Syriac conference last spring, by some of those who were there! Read more here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/cur... www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ESW...

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My legacey at @visithmml.bsky.social lives on! This was one of my favorite stories I wrote. Also, since bluesky is finally taking off, everyone should follow them for cool manuscript and book history content!

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A little joy for the day because Ancient Jew Review is 10 Years Old! Advisory Board member Andrew Jacobs reflects upon AJR's founders and the past decade.

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I started a list for Syriac Studies - please reply to be added! go.bsky.app/9sUvunP

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Looking forward to reading the latest volume of Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 27 (2024) - some great articles here hugoye.bethmardutho.org/volume/27 #syriac #ethiopic #lateantiquity #earlychristianity

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If you or someone you know is working on Ephrem and would be interested in presenting a paper on his Hymns on the Church at NAPS - please be in touch with me! I would be so grateful! #lateantiquity #ephrem #syriac #earlychristianity

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Pope Francis casts a spotlight on the life and thought of St. Isaac of Nineveh: www.catholicnewsagency.com/amp/news/260...

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