Philip Forness

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The Call for Papers for the 2026 Annual Meeting in Denver, CO, has been extended to 11:59PM ET on March 9. Don't miss this chance to engage the global community of biblical scholarship. buff.ly/4hRL28M

Last day to submit a proposal!

I appreciate the contrast of "door" and "wall" in the second foot.

Still a few days to submit a proposal for the Syriac Studies program unit at SBL, including a joint session with the Religious World of Late Antiquity program unit!

Come work with some of my fantastic colleagues in @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social! A full-time, four-year PhD vacancy in Latin Patristic Literature/Theology KU Leuven. Please spread the word! theo.kuleuven.be/apps/joboppo... @kuleuventheology.bsky.social

PhD Scholarship in Theology, Religious Studies or Slavic Studies PhD History Catholic Ecumenism

PhD Scholarship in Theology, Religious Studies or Slavic Studies at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of KU Leuven: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

3-4 Maccabees and the Apocalypse of Baruch According to the Syriac Peshitta Version with English Translation This volume is part of a series of English translations of the Syriac Peshitta along with the Syriac text carried out by an international team of scholars.

I have been informed by the good folks at @gorgiaspress.bsky.social that my translation of the Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch (aka 2 Baruch) is officially in print, though I don't have a hard copy yet. Here's a link: www.gorgiaspress.com/maccabees-3-...

Congratulations! It is wonderful to see this in print!

We have extended the call for applications to July 30th for a post-doc position in the Frankfurt-Leuven Project “Commentary on the Ecclesiastical History of John of Ephesus.” The successful candidate would not necessarily need to move to Frankfurt to take up this position.

One more week to apply!

And here is the link: www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794849/FB0...)

Congratulations!

I am happy to share an advertisement for a post-doc position in the Frankfurt-Leuven project "Commentary on John of Ephesus's Ecclesiastical History." The deadline is 23 July 2025, and the position is to be filled from 1 October 2025. Please feel free to contact me or Hartmut Leppin with questions.

Manuscript Treasures from Afro-Eurasia Throughout the Middle Ages manuscripts were routinely commissioned, copied, illustrated, displayed, read, and transferred across both sides of the Mediterranean. Their significance as vehicles for the...

This article appears in an edited volume on manuscripts, which I can highly recommend. It is published open access here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

The second article focuses on the relationship between the production of translations and the circulation of manuscripts, with an emphasis on the Syriac evidence. The full article can be found here: www.academia.edu/128835135/Tr...

The article is published in the most recent fascicle of the Reallexikon für Antike und Christentum as part of a broader article on translations, with sections also on classical antiquity and ancient Judaism.

The first discusses translation practice and theory and analyzes the evidence for translations into fourteen different languages. A preview of the article can be found here: www.academia.edu/128835239/%C.... But please contact me for a full offprint.

For about the last five years, I have been working on the translation and translation cultures of Christian communities in late antiquity, seeking especially to bring together the Latin and Greek evidence with that found in eastern Christian languages. The first two articles have finally appeared.

So sorry to hear this!

Sorry to hear this, Jeremiah.

Very sorry to hear this, Dan.

Next week in Palermo!

The cover of the volume "Boundaries of Holiness, Frontiers of Sainthood: Negotiating the Image of Christian Holy Figures and Saints in Late Antiquity" (ed. Julia Doroszewska, Mateusz Kusio, Brepols, 2025), including a detail from the painting "Project of an Icon" by Jerzy Nowosielski

Very glad to see this volume, which I had the honour and the pleasure of co-editing with Julia Doroszewska, the prime mover of the project, from the Faculty of History of the University of Warsaw, being released today by @brepols.bsky.social

L’Académie Belge pour l’Étude des Langues Anciennes et Orientales (ABELAO) a le plaisir de vous inviter à son école d’été, qui se tiendra à Louvain-la-Neuve du 29 juillet au 8 août.
Plus de détails et inscriptions sur www.abelao.eu

Very much looking forward to the visit of the Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, Mar Awa III, to Leuven on Monday, February 24th! If you are in the area, please feel free to come (you can register via this website through February 20th). theo.kuleuven.be/en/research/...

Thanks for this list! Could you add me as well?

Most of my research focuses on the Syriac tradition, especially sermons, historiography, manuscripts, letters, and the broader study of translations in Christian communities of the first millennium.

Thanks for putting the list together! I work in the field of pre-modern eastern Christianity.

Could you add me as well.

Congratulations! Looking forward to seeing it!