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Textual Objects Forum: A Material History of the Tura Papyri

Stefaniw: “Even in this tiny fragment of the story of these codices, we have themes of chronography, displacement and patrimony which are part of the theoretical house we live in when we talk about manuscripts. Manuscripts and the way we engage with them are part of how we mark time, find our place, and belong to somebody. Working with these objects meant thinking about all the things that enclose them: archives, knowledge, readers, and time.”

Articles and News

Open access volume on recent research into late antique engraved gemstones.
Twenty-six new manuscripts added to the Vatican Library site online, flagged by Jean-Baptiste Piggin.
Viewpoints on temporality and history at the Past and Present blog.
Toolkit update to the superb Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg.
Appeal for experts from the Scribes of the Cairo Geniza project at Penn libraries.
Substantial donation to boost Late Antique and Byzantine Studies at Oxford University.
“Do You Have to Get Circumcised to Become Jewish?” asks Candida Moss at the Daily Beast.

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