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JAC Newsletter #4 is out! We have a whole host of events, blogs, publications, and presentations of people and resources for you. Check out the browser version here: 359214.seu2.cleverreach.com/m/15846003/5...

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JAC Newsletter #4 is out! We have a whole host of events, blogs, publications, and presentations of people and resources for you. Check out the browser version here: 359214.seu2.cleverreach.com/m/15846003/5...

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In his research, my friend and colleague Max de Molière sheds new light on the well-known manuscript hunter Tischendorf and his lesser known involvement in the trade in Jewish manuscripts from Egypt:

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We have a new blogpost online! Maximilian de Molière writes about 'Leipzig’s Role in the Early Exploration of Qaraite Literature': www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/leipzigs-rol...

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Delighted to welcome a new editor, Teresa Bernheimer of @jacculturelmu.bsky.social, to The Islamicate East series published by @edinburghup.bsky.social! #history #skystorians #medievalsky

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Call for papers: submit your abstract on #Semitic reading traditions (like #Hebrew, #Arabic, #Aramaic including #Syriac and #Mandaic) for our panel at the 35th Deutscher Orientalistentag (8-12 September, Erlangen) by 23 February. If you please. www.academia.edu/127430195/Cf...

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Such a pleasure to be hosted by @petertarras.bsky.social on his wonderful blog Membra Dispersa Sinaitica (MEDISI) 👇👇🙏

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The finale of the lecture series commemorating the forgotten Jewish LMU professor Karl Süßheim, a teacher of Gershom Scholem, featured a discussion and the presentation of a memorial plaque to Süßheim, now installed at the Institute for the Near and Middle East.

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Our member Friederike Schmidt will be teaching a two-day online workshop on Classical Judeo-Arabic manuscripts at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew & Jewish Studies (5 and 12 March, 6:30-8pm, UK time). The deadline for application is 12 February: forms.office.com/e/JFDy6MixZ1.

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We have a new blogpost online! Marijn van Putten @phdnix.bsky.social writes about 'The "Oral Turn" in Qaraite and Quranic Manuscripts in the 11th Century': www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/the-oral-tur...

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New blog post by @phdnix.bsky.social:

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I wrote a blogpost for the blog of the Munich Research Centre for Jewish-Arabic Cultures about the evolution of Quranic manuscripts in the 11th century and its parallels with the evolution of the Hebrew Bible among the Qaraites. www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/the-oral-tur...

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We have a new blogpost online! Marijn van Putten @phdnix.bsky.social writes about 'The "Oral Turn" in Qaraite and Quranic Manuscripts in the 11th Century': www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/the-oral-tur...

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Come to Munich and work with us as a fellow in our new programme "From Pre-Modern to Modern Perspectives in Judaic Studies":

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The lecture series "Jewish Life between Germany and Türkiye’ in honour of the Jewish Turkologist Karl Süßheim comes to an end with a final discussion on 29 January (image © Margot Suesheim and family, New York): www.naher-osten.uni-muenchen.de/wasistlosami...

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In a few weeks, we'll be sending out our JAC Newsletter #4, which will inform you about the projects of our members, our events, and publications. You can now also check out our previous newsletters archived via @juedstudien.bsky.social or subscribe (if you haven't yet).

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In a few weeks, we'll be sending out our JAC Newsletter #4, which will inform you about the projects of our members, our events, and publications. You can now also check out our previous newsletters archived via @juedstudien.bsky.social or subscribe (if you haven't yet).

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#NewPublication #OpenAccess #JudaeoArabic #ArabicBible #BookHistory Ronny Vollandt, "Saadiah Gaon and the Transmission of his Tafsīr", manuscript cultures, 24/1 (2024), pp. 141-193. journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/hup4/mc/arti...

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Come to Munich and work with us as a fellow in our new programme "From Pre-Modern to Modern Perspectives in Judaic Studies":

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We're delighted to announce a new fellowship programme and invite applications from scholars researching Judaism and the Jewish communities of the Near and Middle East from the early modern to modern periods. More info: www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/volkswagen-m...

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We're delighted to announce a new fellowship programme and invite applications from scholars researching Judaism and the Jewish communities of the Near and Middle East from the early modern to modern periods. More info: www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/volkswagen-m...

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Our member Peter Tarras and our Munich colleague Vevian Zaki appeared on German radio. The programme is about the Bible hunter Friedrich Grote and his responsibility for scattering the manuscript heritage of St Catherine's Monastery all over the world. You can listen to it here:

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If you haven't seen it yet, this conference on 'Authorial Agency in Rabbinic Literature and Medieval Midrash' is taking place in a week's time here in Munich. Come along if you're in town! You can find the updated programme on our website:

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If you want to know what the Munich Research Centre for Jewish-Arabic Cultures is up to, here's a little thread about about who we are and what we do:

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Recently published this book of essays celebrating 50 years of Genizah research at @theul.bsky.social. Seems like a good time to share some of my favorites. Here's one by my former teacher, Geoffrey Khan, about a medieval Arabic document he found in Russia 30 years ago: doi.org/10.1163/9789004712331

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A court deed from Cairo, probably 1209 AD. Nūr al-dīn ʿAlī b. Ibrāhīm b. Ṣadaqa buys from the Coptic patriarch a ruined property in maṣūṣa in Fustat. He then sells it to Ibrāhīm b. Sayyār, the Karaite Jew (al-yahūdī al-qarā).

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This is a Judaeo-Arabic book list from the Cairo Genizah (Cambridge CUL T-S 20.47). The entry underlined in red says: ‘Two codices (muṣḥafayn) of the Targum and the Bible with Babylonian (ʿirāqī) vocalisation’. What you might not expect: The Bible is called ‘Qurʾān’ (קראן) here.

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We have a new Biblia Arabica blog online! Miriam L. Hjälm shares her favourite finds and some of the challenges of cataloguing the British Library's Christian Arabic Bible manuscripts: biblia-arabica.com/a-new-catalo...

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A verse from Exodus (the Bible. Not the film) Hebrew in Arabic script, with Hebrew (Tiberian) vocalisation marks 10th century manuscript (h/t Moshe Yagor; from BL)

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Detail of the title page of a fragmented 11th-century Qaraite commentary (BL Or. 2563) on Deuteronomy (אֵלֶּה הַדְּבָרִים = ايلّا هَدّباريم). It says that it's a summary of another commentary and of an abridged version of a third commentary. View the digitised manuscript here: www.nli.org.il/en/discover/...

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A great post by a great colleague!

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We have a new Biblia Arabica blog online! Miriam L. Hjälm shares her favourite finds and some of the challenges of cataloguing the British Library's Christian Arabic Bible manuscripts: biblia-arabica.com/a-new-catalo...

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We are delighted that Monika Amsler (@monikaamsler.bsky.social) will be speaking at our invitation on 3 December as part of the lecture series "Basiswissen Islam" on information management by authors of encyclopaedic works in late antiquity. If you are in Munich, come along!

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Small communities of Yiddish speaking Jews (what we call since the middle of the 20th century "Ashkenazim") have been living in the Levant - and in Palestine specifically - from the 14th century. No one questioned their Jewish lineage. Same for North African Jews. or Sephardim. 1/

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We are delighted that Monika Amsler (@monikaamsler.bsky.social) will be speaking at our invitation on 3 December as part of the lecture series "Basiswissen Islam" on information management by authors of encyclopaedic works in late antiquity. If you are in Munich, come along!

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We welcome our many new followers! We want to help build a constructive, polite, and network-orientated community here. Let us introduce our mission and work in this thread: 1/7

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We are excited about the upcoming conference "Auctor - Auctoritas - Authorship: Claiming Authorial Agency in Rabbinic Literature and Medieval Midrash". Check out the programme here: www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/news/auctor-...

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We are excited about the upcoming conference "Auctor - Auctoritas - Authorship: Claiming Authorial Agency in Rabbinic Literature and Medieval Midrash". Check out the programme here: www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/news/auctor-...

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