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)
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)
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Just a highlight for today: @drewjakeprof.bsky.social 's work is always so rich. I was going over some of his material from Christ Circumcised (2012) for my current book project and *chef's kiss* It is just so good each time I read it! www.pennpress.org/978081224397...
Christ Circumcised – Penn Press
In the first full-length study of the circumcision of Jesus, Andrew S. Jacobs turns to an unexpected symbol—the stereotypical mark of the Jewish covenant o...
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February 6, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Just a highlight for today: @drewjakeprof.bsky.social 's work is always so rich. I was going over some of his material from Christ Circumcised (2012) for my current book project and *chef's kiss* It is just so good each time I read it! www.pennpress.org/978081224397...
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Due to unforeseen circumstances, tomorrow's paper cannot take place. It will be postponed until a later date.
February 4, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Due to unforeseen circumstances, tomorrow's paper cannot take place. It will be postponed until a later date.
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We're thrilled to share with you the programme for the 2026 online seminar of the project! The series is curated by our colleague Maria S. Thomas (@dekayra.bsky.social).
All welcome! Let us know if you'd like to add you to the email list. genaut.univie.ac.at/?page_id=671
All welcome! Let us know if you'd like to add you to the email list. genaut.univie.ac.at/?page_id=671
February 2, 2026 at 2:53 PM
We're thrilled to share with you the programme for the 2026 online seminar of the project! The series is curated by our colleague Maria S. Thomas (@dekayra.bsky.social).
All welcome! Let us know if you'd like to add you to the email list. genaut.univie.ac.at/?page_id=671
All welcome! Let us know if you'd like to add you to the email list. genaut.univie.ac.at/?page_id=671
Extremely exciting!
Fragment of the Month: January 2026
In January 2026's Fragment of the Month, Cobb, Elbaum and Rustow have pieced together a lengthy Fatimid document and the history behind it.
www.lib.cam.ac.uk
January 31, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Extremely exciting!
Next week!!!
Next week we are hosting another paper, this time by Nicolas Atas (KU Leuven) on Syriac lexica! Tune in on Thursday 5 Feb at our regular time of 10 AM CET.
As always, don't forget to register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social if you're not yet on our mailing list!
As always, don't forget to register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social if you're not yet on our mailing list!
January 31, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Next week!!!
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Later today!
We are excited to host Samet Budak (Princeton) next Thursday 29 January at 5PM CET (note the unusual timeslot!).
The topic of his paper is Greek translations in the early Ottoman period!
If you are not yet on our mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social to receive the Zoom link.
The topic of his paper is Greek translations in the early Ottoman period!
If you are not yet on our mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social to receive the Zoom link.
January 29, 2026 at 10:23 AM
Later today!
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#OutNow: Sahidic Coptic by Bill Manley 📖
This new textbook offers students a clear and concise introduction to the grammar of Sahidic Coptic, as well as essential historical and cultural context.
Download the eTextbook for free.
Find out more: uclpress.co.uk/book/sahidic...
This new textbook offers students a clear and concise introduction to the grammar of Sahidic Coptic, as well as essential historical and cultural context.
Download the eTextbook for free.
Find out more: uclpress.co.uk/book/sahidic...
January 12, 2026 at 11:30 AM
#OutNow: Sahidic Coptic by Bill Manley 📖
This new textbook offers students a clear and concise introduction to the grammar of Sahidic Coptic, as well as essential historical and cultural context.
Download the eTextbook for free.
Find out more: uclpress.co.uk/book/sahidic...
This new textbook offers students a clear and concise introduction to the grammar of Sahidic Coptic, as well as essential historical and cultural context.
Download the eTextbook for free.
Find out more: uclpress.co.uk/book/sahidic...
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#CatchOfTheDay
#OpenAccess on
#MENAdoc:
"Die Kreuzzüge im Urteil syrischer und armenischer Quellen" by Anneliese Lüders
[Berlin: Akad.-Verl., 1964]
dx.doi.org/10.25673/101...
#crusades #armenian #francs #syria
#OpenAccess on
#MENAdoc:
"Die Kreuzzüge im Urteil syrischer und armenischer Quellen" by Anneliese Lüders
[Berlin: Akad.-Verl., 1964]
dx.doi.org/10.25673/101...
#crusades #armenian #francs #syria
January 9, 2026 at 1:25 PM
#CatchOfTheDay
#OpenAccess on
#MENAdoc:
"Die Kreuzzüge im Urteil syrischer und armenischer Quellen" by Anneliese Lüders
[Berlin: Akad.-Verl., 1964]
dx.doi.org/10.25673/101...
#crusades #armenian #francs #syria
#OpenAccess on
#MENAdoc:
"Die Kreuzzüge im Urteil syrischer und armenischer Quellen" by Anneliese Lüders
[Berlin: Akad.-Verl., 1964]
dx.doi.org/10.25673/101...
#crusades #armenian #francs #syria
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💥 Dr Caroline Barron (Durham) and Dr Gabriel Bodard (University of London) are organising an online are organising a ✨ free and online✨ EpiDoc workshop!
📝 'Digital Encoding of Epigraphic Manuscripts and Surrogates'
📅 20 Feb, 2–3:30pm
🔗 Learn more and sign up here: ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
📝 'Digital Encoding of Epigraphic Manuscripts and Surrogates'
📅 20 Feb, 2–3:30pm
🔗 Learn more and sign up here: ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
January 9, 2026 at 1:02 PM
I predict time is going to fly in 2026. See you later this month for the next paper!
Off to a great start to 2026 this morning with Roman Gundacker.
See you on the 29th for the next paper on Greek translations in the early Ottoman Empire!
See you on the 29th for the next paper on Greek translations in the early Ottoman Empire!
January 9, 2026 at 11:40 AM
I predict time is going to fly in 2026. See you later this month for the next paper!
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Many thanks to the @acdsociety.bsky.social for recognising @davehone.bsky.social and my chapter on Arthur Conan Doyle and Michael Crichton in "Palaeontology in Public"! For the Open Access volume, ed. by @chrismanias.bsky.social: uclpress.co.uk/book/palaeon...
January 9, 2026 at 7:59 AM
Many thanks to the @acdsociety.bsky.social for recognising @davehone.bsky.social and my chapter on Arthur Conan Doyle and Michael Crichton in "Palaeontology in Public"! For the Open Access volume, ed. by @chrismanias.bsky.social: uclpress.co.uk/book/palaeon...
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Tomorrow!
Happy New Year everyone!
We are starting off 2026 next Friday 9 Jan at 10 AM with a paper by Roman Gundacker (ÖAW/UniVie) on Manetho's Aegyptiaca.
If you're not yet on the mailing list and interested in attending, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social
We are starting off 2026 next Friday 9 Jan at 10 AM with a paper by Roman Gundacker (ÖAW/UniVie) on Manetho's Aegyptiaca.
If you're not yet on the mailing list and interested in attending, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social
January 8, 2026 at 7:55 AM
Tomorrow!
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Some people demean ‘to ax’ as a variant of ‘to ask’, but it’s at least 1200 years old.
It stems from Old English ‘ācsian’ with /ks/, a variant of ‘āscian’ with /sk/. Later, Chaucer used both ‘axen’ and ‘asken’.
Swapping two sounds is called metathesis.
More examples from English and its sisters:
It stems from Old English ‘ācsian’ with /ks/, a variant of ‘āscian’ with /sk/. Later, Chaucer used both ‘axen’ and ‘asken’.
Swapping two sounds is called metathesis.
More examples from English and its sisters:
January 6, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Some people demean ‘to ax’ as a variant of ‘to ask’, but it’s at least 1200 years old.
It stems from Old English ‘ācsian’ with /ks/, a variant of ‘āscian’ with /sk/. Later, Chaucer used both ‘axen’ and ‘asken’.
Swapping two sounds is called metathesis.
More examples from English and its sisters:
It stems from Old English ‘ācsian’ with /ks/, a variant of ‘āscian’ with /sk/. Later, Chaucer used both ‘axen’ and ‘asken’.
Swapping two sounds is called metathesis.
More examples from English and its sisters:
The title should rather be "University bans certain contemporary moral problems from being discussed in a contemporary moral problems class." Terribly disappointed, but not surprising. I hope this madness (i.e. censorship) is just a phase that ends with the next administration. shorturl.at/SxRd6
Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
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January 7, 2026 at 11:52 AM
The title should rather be "University bans certain contemporary moral problems from being discussed in a contemporary moral problems class." Terribly disappointed, but not surprising. I hope this madness (i.e. censorship) is just a phase that ends with the next administration. shorturl.at/SxRd6
Happy New Year and see you next week!
With my background in Egyptology and Greek and Syriac chronographic traditions, this is bound to become my favourite ever TeTra paper.
With my background in Egyptology and Greek and Syriac chronographic traditions, this is bound to become my favourite ever TeTra paper.
Happy New Year everyone!
We are starting off 2026 next Friday 9 Jan at 10 AM with a paper by Roman Gundacker (ÖAW/UniVie) on Manetho's Aegyptiaca.
If you're not yet on the mailing list and interested in attending, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social
We are starting off 2026 next Friday 9 Jan at 10 AM with a paper by Roman Gundacker (ÖAW/UniVie) on Manetho's Aegyptiaca.
If you're not yet on the mailing list and interested in attending, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social
January 3, 2026 at 8:44 AM
Happy New Year and see you next week!
With my background in Egyptology and Greek and Syriac chronographic traditions, this is bound to become my favourite ever TeTra paper.
With my background in Egyptology and Greek and Syriac chronographic traditions, this is bound to become my favourite ever TeTra paper.
Happy New Year everyone, and see you next week!
Given my background in Egyptology and my research into Greek, Syriac and other chronicle traditions, this has the potential of becoming my favourite ever TeTra paper.
Given my background in Egyptology and my research into Greek, Syriac and other chronicle traditions, this has the potential of becoming my favourite ever TeTra paper.
January 2, 2026 at 11:54 AM
Happy New Year everyone, and see you next week!
Given my background in Egyptology and my research into Greek, Syriac and other chronicle traditions, this has the potential of becoming my favourite ever TeTra paper.
Given my background in Egyptology and my research into Greek, Syriac and other chronicle traditions, this has the potential of becoming my favourite ever TeTra paper.
See you all next year!
From all of us at TeTra, happy holidays and a wonderful end to what has been an amazing 2025!
Our little Christmas gift to you is the preliminary programme for 2026, now available on our website: tetra.univie.ac.at. See you next year!
Our little Christmas gift to you is the preliminary programme for 2026, now available on our website: tetra.univie.ac.at. See you next year!
TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar
Roman Gundacker (Austrian Academy of Sciences / University of Vienna)Manetho’s Aegyptiaca: A Long, Crooked, And Rocky Path from Egyptian Sources to Byzantine Manuscripts
tetra.univie.ac.at
December 18, 2025 at 9:34 AM
See you all next year!
Having encountered a meeting between Apa Makarios and the devil with a sickle/scythe in his hand in one of the Apopthegmata Patrum, I'm curious to know what the earliest known witness, either in text or in image, is to the idea of the Grim Reaper. Suggestions for sources are much appreciated!
December 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Having encountered a meeting between Apa Makarios and the devil with a sickle/scythe in his hand in one of the Apopthegmata Patrum, I'm curious to know what the earliest known witness, either in text or in image, is to the idea of the Grim Reaper. Suggestions for sources are much appreciated!
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If you missed this afternoon's Spotlight on Peter Van Nuffelen and Lieve Van Hoof's The Fragmentary Chronicles after Eusebius, with a response by Monica Berti, here is the recording!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EbF...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EbF...
TeTra | Book in the Spotlight: Van Nuffelen & Van Hoof, The Greek Chronicles after Eusebius (2025)
YouTube video by TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar
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November 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
If you missed this afternoon's Spotlight on Peter Van Nuffelen and Lieve Van Hoof's The Fragmentary Chronicles after Eusebius, with a response by Monica Berti, here is the recording!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EbF...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EbF...
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‘Bronze Age craft settlement uncovered in Kisonerga’
Announcement of the results of the most recent season at Kissonerga - congratulations @caari-cyprus.bsky.social
#archaeologynews 🏺
cyprus-mail.com/2025/11/20/b...
Announcement of the results of the most recent season at Kissonerga - congratulations @caari-cyprus.bsky.social
#archaeologynews 🏺
cyprus-mail.com/2025/11/20/b...
Bronze Age craft settlement uncovered in Kisonerga
Archaeologists have uncovered a Bronze Age settlement of artisanal character at the Kisonerga–Skalia site in Paphos, dating back to around 2500 BC. The excavations, directed by Dr Lindy Crewe, directo...
cyprus-mail.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:43 PM
‘Bronze Age craft settlement uncovered in Kisonerga’
Announcement of the results of the most recent season at Kissonerga - congratulations @caari-cyprus.bsky.social
#archaeologynews 🏺
cyprus-mail.com/2025/11/20/b...
Announcement of the results of the most recent season at Kissonerga - congratulations @caari-cyprus.bsky.social
#archaeologynews 🏺
cyprus-mail.com/2025/11/20/b...
An early jetlagged morning after returning from a week in the US where I gave two lectures on Syro-Armenian history and Syro-Armenian polemics at Princeton University and St Nersess Armenian Seminary. 1/7
November 20, 2025 at 6:02 AM
An early jetlagged morning after returning from a week in the US where I gave two lectures on Syro-Armenian history and Syro-Armenian polemics at Princeton University and St Nersess Armenian Seminary. 1/7
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Next week Lusine Sargsyan (Matenadaran/YSU) will enlighten us about the production of Armenian manuscripts in Romania! Tune in on Thu 20 Nov at 10 AM CET. f you're not yet on out mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social to receive the Zoom link
November 13, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Next week Lusine Sargsyan (Matenadaran/YSU) will enlighten us about the production of Armenian manuscripts in Romania! Tune in on Thu 20 Nov at 10 AM CET. f you're not yet on out mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social to receive the Zoom link
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Later this month we are hosting a new Book in the Spotlight. On Mon 24 Nov at 4PM CET Peter Van Nuffelen (Ghent) will present The Fragmentary Greek Chronicles after Eusebius, which he recently published with Lieve Van Hoof. Discussant will be @monica-berti.bsky.social (Leipzig)!
November 8, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Later this month we are hosting a new Book in the Spotlight. On Mon 24 Nov at 4PM CET Peter Van Nuffelen (Ghent) will present The Fragmentary Greek Chronicles after Eusebius, which he recently published with Lieve Van Hoof. Discussant will be @monica-berti.bsky.social (Leipzig)!
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Great talk and great conversation yesterday.
In case you missed it, here is the recording!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kH9...
In case you missed it, here is the recording!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kH9...
TeTra | Ellen Muehlberger "Character Building: Tracing the Voice of Mary of Egypt"
YouTube video by TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar
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November 7, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Great talk and great conversation yesterday.
In case you missed it, here is the recording!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kH9...
In case you missed it, here is the recording!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kH9...
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Voor online gemeenschap Brabanders en hun Taal en Brabants Erfgoed hebben we een video gemaakt over het woord 'gij':
Het is weer Gij-week! 🥳 Deze week zetten we met Brabanders en hun Taal het Brabantse dialect in het zonnetje. Yoïn van Spijk vertelt je alles over de herkomst van het woord 'gij' en werkwoordsvormen als 'hedde', 'zijde' en 'doede':
November 5, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Voor online gemeenschap Brabanders en hun Taal en Brabants Erfgoed hebben we een video gemaakt over het woord 'gij':