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12 Apr 2024
And now the discount code (such as it is)!
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Anyone looking for some last minute Passover reading, check out my article on the odd Aramaic opening "invitation" of the Haggadah:
academia.edu/44600798/Whoeve…
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Mar 27
For anyone interested, a historiographic retrospective on the state of the historical study of the Babylonian Talmud, @ancientjew :
ancientjewreview.com/read/20…
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Feb 21
Important new study by Raashid Goyal:
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The first book in our new @EdinburghUP series "Critical Approaches to Arabic Historiography" is published next month! Congratulations Prof. Borrut!
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22 Dec 2025
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)
open.spotify.com/episode/4gk…
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22 Oct 2025
A 2nd article is out today, w/Michele Scarlassara!
We present a previously unpublished Syriac incantation bowl from the Penn Museum, w/a formula paralleling several Mandaic bowls, w/intriguing social-historical implications
This is the 1st bowl published using spectral imaging!
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22 Oct 2025
Link to the original here, or message me if you'd like a copy: brill.com/view/journals/arst…
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22 Oct 2025
My article “Does an Arrow a Day Keep Satan Away? Late Antique Magical Subtexts in Babylonian Rabbinic Narratives” is now OA in HTR!
It argues that a Talmudic story about a rabbi’s encounter with Satan adjudicates between competing incantations in late antique Iraq
Great images!
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11 Oct 2025
Coming soon: Sasanian Law in its Social Context, Macuch
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30 Sep 2025
My most recent article, "The Arabs and the Ummah of Muhammad," has just been published online with Der Islam.
ALT https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/islam-2025-0018/html
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2 Sep 2025
New pod! Matthew D. C. Larson and Mark Letteney on Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration
You can now subscribe to the show too.
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2Vy…
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21 Aug 2025
Why do Jews cover their heads?
In JQR 115.3, @Simcha_Gross looks at norms of Jewish male head covering as a proxy for cultural assimilation and difference in rabbinic Rome and Sasania.
Learn more on the blog and read his essay FREE thru September 5!
katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources…
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20 Aug 2025
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 🤩
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18 Aug 2025
Our summer issue is out and two essays are free for a limited time. Don't forget to peruse the TOC! 🌻
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55233
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11 Aug 2025
For anyone actually interested in the question of the conversion of the Khazars, there is more recent and methodologically sound research on the subject by Shaul Stampfer:
Read his lengthy article here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/article/5…
Or watch him here: youtube.com/watch?v=PYbycYgj…
10 Aug 2025
Abraham Pollak was an Israeli historian and founder of the department of Middle Eastern history at Tel Aviv University. He was awarded the “Prize for Jewish thought” in 1943 for researching and determining that modern Jews are actually Khazars who mass converted to Judaism.
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11 Aug 2025
And for the most recent research on Ashkenazi DNA, see the recently published muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article/….
For a study of the politics and preconceptions driving the question of Jewish origins and genetics more broadly, see Steven Weitzman's book here press.princeton.edu/books/pa…
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1 Aug 2025
My new article "From Togas to Turbans: Jewish Male Head Coverings between the Roman and Sasanian Worlds" was just published by @TheJQR.
It is available for free download here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article/…!
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30 Jul 2025
RT @abhistoria: I’m happy to announce that Sajjad Rizvi (@mullasadra) and I will be the editors in chief of the new Brill journal Taḥqīq: 𝘑…
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