Lin, Chia-Wei @chiaweilin.bsky.social Assistante diplômée & doctorante @Université de Lausanne. Historical linguistics, language contact, indigenous grammatical traditions, Christian and Buddhist translations on the Silk Road. Working on Barlaam&Josaphat.
https://unil.academia.edu/chiaweilin
TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar @tetraseminar.bsky.social Seminar hosted by Giorgia Nicosia (UGent), Marion Pragt (KU Leuven, @worldlyscribe.bsky.social), Andy Hilkens (UniVie, @andyhilkens.bsky.social), and Dan Batovici (UniVie, @danbatovici.bsky.social). Website: TeTra.univie.ac.at.
Traditions of Eastern Late Antiquity @aartela.bsky.social The Bluesky account of the American Academy of Religion Traditions of Eastern Late Antiquity program unit.
De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social News from the Classical, Ancient Near Eastern & Egyptian Studies department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Posts by our editors.
Kristian Heal @kristianheal.bsky.social Scholar of Syriac Literature in Late Antiquity, textual transmission, manuscript cultures, and the history of scholarship. Happiest surrounded by books or the English countryside.
Mara Nicosia @mara-nicosia.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Fellow at dissgea.unipd.it, Padua
Syriac rhetoric, Arabic rhetoric, Semitic linguistics
https://maranicosia.com/
Paul Babinski @paulbabinski.bsky.social Department of Religion, UGA
Recent publications
On the study of looted Qur'ans (with Jan Loop): https://brill.com/view/journals/erl/9/3/article-p239_001.xml
On manuscript catalogs: https://www.academia.edu/125336554/The_Manuscript_Catalog_proofs
Gorgias Press @gorgiaspress.bsky.social Independent publisher of books and journals in history, languages, and religious studies, specifically Biblical Studies, Syriac and Eastern Christianity, Jewish Studies, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. "Publishing for the Sake of Knowledge" since 2001!
IxTheo @ixtheo.bsky.social Index Theologicus
Open Access Bibliographie für Theologie und Religionswissenschaft
International Bibliography of Theology and Religious Studies
https://ixtheo.de
Fachinformationsdienst Theologie, UB Tübingen
Impressum: https://ixtheo.de/Content/Impressum
Heleen Murre-van den Berg @hlmvdberg.bsky.social Professor of Global Christianity, Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies, Radboud University - Books - Middle East - Religion - Syriac/Assyrian Christians - Migration
Jillian Marcantonio @jrmarcantonio.bsky.social I study late ancient theology and liturgical poetry, and I teach Christian history at Campbell University Divinity School. My posts are from my own perspective, often about things unrelated to my work.
Laura Locke Estes @lblestes.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Pepperdine | writes on Syriac Christian exegesis, early Islam, and construction of religious identity
Rev Dr John Plus Dr Mary @revdrjohn.bsky.social PhDs in history and theology of Jihad in Islam/Xnty in Syriac and Arabic and other topic, ex-academics, historical wargame designer and retiree. Our identities concealed due to threats and doxxing.
Dan Schwartz @bergdenker.bsky.social Late Antiquity, Syriac Studies, Digital Humanities. I promise I'll write something clever after one more cup of coffee. (he, him)
Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute @bethmardutho.bsky.social The official Twitter account for Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute, a non-profit organization that promotes the study of the Syriac language.
Sāmapriyavasuḣ @avzaagzonunaada.bsky.social Interested in descriptive & historical linguistics.
Like Caucasian & Indo-Iranic languages, & dabble (in decreasing order of oftenity) in the languages of the Pacific Northwest, the Himalayas & along the Nile.
Georgian calligrapher & fish-cook henceforth.
Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social 🎸🌱🍄🟫⚗️🧪☕️
I co-edit & typeset Texts & Translations of Transcendence & Transformation (4T) at HDS/CSWR tinyurl.com/494v9n59
The Pearlsong tinyurl.com/msajp4ut
✍️ a 📙 on weed in 13th-15th cent. Arabic texts
🏡 Georgia (US; but also Old Georgian)
PLUR
IDIC
Matthew Saunders @digitalsemitist.bsky.social PhD student in Near Eastern Studies at Johns Hopkins University studying comparative Semitics, Aramaic studies, Ugaritic studies, digital humanities.
ⲁⲙⲃⲣⲟⲥⲓⲟⲥ 𓏞 @pisakho.bsky.social Interested in #Coptic #ϯⲙⲉⲧⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ
Erin Galgay Walsh @eringwalsh.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School and the College | Syriac literature, late antiquity, biblical interpretation | Editor-in-Chief ancientjewreview.com
Sarah Bakker Kellogg @sbakkerkellogg.bsky.social Ethnographer, Reproductive Laborer, and Student of the Syriac World
Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com We love #language and #linguistics. Why don't you join us in our journey explore the wonderful world of languages, words, etymology and much more at sillylinguistics.com
Marijn van Putten @phdnix.bsky.social Historical Linguist; Working on Quranic Arabic and the linguistic history of Arabic and Tamazight. Game designer for Team18k
Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social Scholar and researcher of ancient languages, August prize-nominated author. Hebraist, Ugaritologist, Semitist, moonlighting in Indo-European.
Ordained in a rare religion.
Abyssum per Sapientiam Linguā Incarnandō.
Ola-Wikander-eng.se
A. Z. Foreman: Serious Philology, Silly Behavior @azforeman.bsky.social Russian-American linguist, 1st amendment nerd, translator. Posts re: medieval literature, free speech, translation, poetry, & linguistic history of Arabic, English and other languages.
Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social Berber linguistics // linguistique amazighe // ⵜⵎⵓⵙⵏⵉ ⵏ ⵜⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ
Universiteit Leiden
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/maarten-kossmann
Profile picture: Volubilis votive stone, Musée des civilisations de Rabat
Lameen Souag @lameensouag.bsky.social Linguist, mainly focused on historical change and contact in northern Africa (Arabic, Berber, Songhay - and now Nilotic...)
El Cabbage @alcabbage045.bsky.social He/him/هو/إيّاهُ; Particle physics PhD candidate with a love for science and the humanities
kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social language enjoyer, he/him
OrenH @langpoljer.bsky.social Language, society, politics: A personal view from Jerusalem
Safaitic @safaitic.bsky.social Visit : ociana.osu.edu
tonogenesis @tonogenesis.bsky.social languages and scripts
Hava Bas-Idis @havabasidis.bsky.social /ˈχɑvʌ bɑˈsɪdɪs/. she/her 🏳️⚧️. Afroasiatic historical linguistics.- J Jonathan Stokl @jonstokl.bsky.social
Chip Hardy @chiphardy.bsky.social Professor of Divinity (Old Testament), Beeson Divinity School
https://www.samford.edu/beeson-divinity/directory/Hardy-Chip
Author: Exegetical Journeys in BH|Going Deeper with Biblical Hebrew|Development of BH Prepositions|Exegetical Gems from BH| 쉬운 구약
Matuww Scripts @matuww.bsky.social Matuww is a project about the phylogenetic relationships of writing scripts descended from Egyptian hieroglyphs, involving linguistics, history, and art, showing how connected we are as humans.
𓏞 Project link: matuww.com
https://www.ko-fi.com/matuww- L Haidar Abboud @lawzinaj.bsky.social This account is for my linguistics hobby. I'm interested in Semitic languages (Arabic dialectology, Aramaic (Classical Syriac or modern dialects), Hebrew).
James Bejon @jamesbejon.bsky.social
Kutlu Akalın kutkut16 @kutkut16.bsky.social Assist. Prof., Dept. of Ancient Languages and Cultures, Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University (2025)
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine.
Andy Hilkens @andyhilkens.bsky.social Historian & philologist. Syro-Armenian studies.
Lecturer in Coptic & Postdoc Generative Authority: The Followers of the Apostles as Literary Characters (UniVie)
Co-host @tetraseminar.bsky.social
Co-editor Eastern Christian Cultures in Contact (Brepols)
Grigory Kessel @grigory-kessel.bsky.social Interested in Syriac manuscripts
Uwe Edelheid feat. mariazielenbach @mariazielenbach.bsky.social I post mostly about Linguistics and Tolkien | PhDing at @VUamsterdam about historical linguistics & North Halmahera langs | SilmariaPodcast | {female markers}
Liza Anderson @ecclesiangst.bsky.social scholar of church history, ascetical theology, and monastic studies; teacher of priestlings; translator of Syriac; ecumenist; Episcopalian; aspiring goatherd-nun
Munich Research Centre for Jewish-Arabic Cultures @jacculturelmu.bsky.social The Munich Research Centre for Jewish-Arabic Cultures brings together projects of junior and senior researchers relating to Jewish-Arabic cultures.
www.lmu.de/jewisharabiccultures
Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social Hebrew Bible, Biblical Hebrew, Aramaic, Comparative Semitics. Blog: bnuyaminim.wordpress.com
Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social Itinerant scholar from Chicago (he/him) | PhD Middle Eastern Studies | current Humboldt Fellow at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de | former Leverhulme Fellow at @cam.ac.uk | @biajs.bsky.social award-winning author | publications: nickposegay.com
Maria S. Thomas @dekayra.bsky.social Researcher @University of Vienna, PhD @VU Amsterdam
Syriac manuscripts, materiality, digital humanities
Editor, Middle East @TheDigitalOrientalist
Middle East Medievalists @mideastmedieval.bsky.social Middle East Medievalists (MEM) is an international professional non-profit association of scholars interested in the study of the medieval Middle East, defined expansively to include all geographies with prominent Muslim political, religious, or social pre
Mina Monier @mmonier.bsky.social PI of the RCN-funded project Unconventional Gospels (UnGos): A Computer–Assisted Analysis of Complex Harmonic Traditions in Newly Discovered Manuscripts.
Michael Payne @mlawrencepayne.bsky.social Translator and historian | PhD from Brown University | Writing about al-Jāḥiẓ, animals, race, and enslavement | Interested in early Islam and late antique Christianity.
https://www.mlawrencepayne.com
Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social Professor & Chair, Dept. of Theology, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN | Early & Late Antique Christianity, Theological Debates & Developments, Scriptural Exegesis | Translator of ancient texts | Early riser | Slow reader | Classical guitarist
Jeremiah Coogan @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social Historian of religion, textuality, and enslavement in the Roman Mediterranean | Associate Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity
Matthew R. Crawford @mcrawford.bsky.social Professor and Director of Research Program in Biblical and Early Christian Studies, Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry, Melbourne, Australia; Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
Marion Pragt @worldlyscribe.bsky.social Syriac, late antiquity, manuscripts, sheep and tea.
Dan Batovici @danbatovici.bsky.social ERC CoG 2025 (claim.univie.ac.at) | FWF START Award 2024 (GenAut.univie.ac.at) | Co-host of @tetraseminar.bsky.social (TeTra.univie.ac.at) | Co-editor RBECS.org | Bits and bobs, manuscript studies, and the reception of EC literature. In Vienna.
Sabrina Inowlocki @sabrinainowlocki.bsky.social Mom of 4 in Oz
PI of the ISF Project Josephus Christianus
https://sinowloc.wixsite.com/josephus-christianus
Australian Catholic University
Melbourne
Late antiquity, books, Jews, Christians, humour, laughter etc.
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Philip Forness @philipforness.bsky.social Associate Professor of Eastern Christianity at KU Leuven.
Fraser McNair @ralphtorta.bsky.social Medievalist, blogger, charter enthusiast. Currently working as a research fellow on the Music In The Shadows project at the University of Nottingham. Read my blog at:
https://salutemmundo.wordpress.com/
Bradley N. Rice @bradleynrice.bsky.social Posts on Christian apocrypha and early Christianity | Editor | Co-creator of e-Clavis @nasscal.bsky.social | he/him
Joumana Medlej @majnouna.com Artist-scholar, specialised in early Arabic (Kufi) scripts & historical/natural materials. Interest in material culture & things real. Beirut émigré in Oxford. Earth lover, plastic-free. Contemplative. Whovian/Gallifrey…
Links: https://linktr.ee/Majnouna
AaronM @aaronm.bsky.social I dissect calendars in Books of Hours and keep a close eye on the Vatican Library, sometimes in that order.
https://www.cokldb.org/
https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/
BiblioIranica @biblioiranica.info Bibliographia Iranica is a collective bibliographic blog for Iranian Studies maintained by Shervin Farridnejad, Yazdan Safaee and Arash Zeini (founder).
HMML @visithmml.bsky.social The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) photographs, catalogs, & provides access to manuscripts—partnering with more than 1,500 libraries worldwide to preserve & share handwritten history. Learn more: hmml.org
Shervin Farridnejad @farridnejad.bsky.social Professor of Iranian Studies، History, Languages & Cultures of the Near East, University of Hamburg، member of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC): Iranian Languages and Religions, Zoroastrianism, Judeo-Persian Literature
Josh Mugler @jmugs.bsky.social Working with manuscripts at HMML, probably posting cats. Philadelphia. Hoping this app works (he/him)
Scott McDonough @sjmcdonough.bsky.social Historian of the late ancient world: Sasanian Iran, the Caucasus, and the Eastern Roman Empire. Professor at William Paterson University. I like cats, photography, and sweet cabbage pierogi.
Tony Burke @tonyburke.bsky.social Religious Studies prof., York University, Toronto; writes on Christian apocrypha
The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social https://digitalorientalist.com
Dedicated to discovering and sharing insights on digital humanities in an inclusive environment! Join us・انضم إلينا・参加しませんか・bize katıl・kasance tare damu. 🗃️ 🌐
Philological Essayist @pessayist.bsky.social The site I share translations and thoughts of philological interest on: https://philologicaltryouts.substack.com/. Enjoys dabbling in Literary Chinese, Semitic Studies, Sanskrit, Pāli, Polemical Texts, and other stuff. Trying to discover Albanian & Burmese
Christoph Markschies @markschies.bsky.social ... beschäftigt sich nicht nur mit antikem Christentum
Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social Postdoc @jacculturelmu.bsky.social | Blog: http://medisi.hypotheses.org | Arabic Bible | Manuscript Studies | Book History | Provenance | SciCom | #FirstGen
https://www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/team/tarras-peter/
NASSCAL @nasscal.bsky.social The North American Society for the Study of Christian Apocryphal Literature is a scholarly organization dedicated to the study of the Christian Apocrypha.
Please visit us at nasscal.com!
Want some merch? Visit https://www.redbubble.com/shop/nasscal
Jamey Walters @jedwardwalters.bsky.social History professor. Former manuscript cataloger. Research: Ancient Mediterranean Religions, Syriac manuscripts, Syriac Literature. He/him.
Jacob Lollar @jalollar.bsky.social Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow (2022-2024)
British Academy International Fellow (2024-2027)
Dominique Bobeck @dombobeck.bsky.social Conlanger for The Gryphon, linguist (phonologist, morphologist), semitist, he/him, 30, based in Berlin, #langsky, friend of liberalism
Matthew Monger @biblemonger.bsky.social Scholar of the languages and literature of the Ancient Near East. Focusing on reception history, manuscripts, and material philology.
MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion, and Society, Oslo.
On YouTube as Biblemonger