Monika Amsler
@monikaamsler.bsky.social
Senior Research Assistant (sic!), University of Bern. Rabbinic lit., ancient education, book production, the concept of the paradox, history of ideas.
SBL friends, join us for a field trip! 🎒
The “Material Texts at the Boston Athenaeum” (S24-150) will take place from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on Monday, November 24th. We will meet at the Boston Athenaeum (10½ Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108). All are welcome! #AARSBL maps.app.goo.gl/4vE6cRbvpq3W... 3/
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November 12, 2025 at 1:32 AM
SBL friends, join us for a field trip! 🎒
You know it’s Friday when…
November 7, 2025 at 6:31 PM
You know it’s Friday when…
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Begins Oct. 27 2025 [+ Part 2 Offered early January 2026]
My course "Learning Coptic through the Gospel of Thomas" offers students affordable Coptic instruction from an expert.
Asynchronous or Synchronous (Mondays 9am Atlanta, GA time) + Lifetime access to course videos and instruction materials authored by me
www.religiondepartment.com/learning-cop...
Asynchronous or Synchronous (Mondays 9am Atlanta, GA time) + Lifetime access to course videos and instruction materials authored by me
www.religiondepartment.com/learning-cop...
Learning Coptic Through the Gospel of Thomas (Level 1)
www.religiondepartment.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Begins Oct. 27 2025 [+ Part 2 Offered early January 2026]
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Zwei Bücher, die ich aktuell uneingeschränkt empfehlen kann:
@reclamverlag.bsky.social
@chbeckliteratur.bsky.social
@reclamverlag.bsky.social
@chbeckliteratur.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Zwei Bücher, die ich aktuell uneingeschränkt empfehlen kann:
@reclamverlag.bsky.social
@chbeckliteratur.bsky.social
@reclamverlag.bsky.social
@chbeckliteratur.bsky.social
Prepping for our SBL book review panel of @kelsbot.bsky.social ‘s new monograph on the NT canon! Join us on 11/23, 1-3.30 pm!
September 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Prepping for our SBL book review panel of @kelsbot.bsky.social ‘s new monograph on the NT canon! Join us on 11/23, 1-3.30 pm!
Oh no! All the AI-generated reviews and podcasts are gone!
How will I survive?
How will I survive?
September 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Oh no! All the AI-generated reviews and podcasts are gone!
How will I survive?
How will I survive?
That was so much fun! Thank you for having me, Isaac, and for the great work you do!
New podcast on the YouTube channel of Talmud for Everyone on Dr. Monika Amsler's book, *The Babylonian Talmud and Late Antique Book Culture* (Cambridge University Press, 2023), which provides a novel thesis on how and when the Talmud was written:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o_S...
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Dr. Monika Amsler: How and When Was the Talmud Written?
YouTube video by Talmud for Everyone
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September 12, 2025 at 1:23 PM
That was so much fun! Thank you for having me, Isaac, and for the great work you do!
🐣 Our SBL Review Symposium for Mike Chin’s new monograph “Life” has just been published with Religious Studies Review 51/2. Have a look here, especially if you are interested in ancient natural history or new ways of writing old history:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17480922...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17480922...
Religious Studies Review: Vol 51, No 2
Click on the title to browse this issue
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September 4, 2025 at 2:17 PM
🐣 Our SBL Review Symposium for Mike Chin’s new monograph “Life” has just been published with Religious Studies Review 51/2. Have a look here, especially if you are interested in ancient natural history or new ways of writing old history:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17480922...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17480922...
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In einem Land vor unserer Mailkultur...
Unser neues "Handbuch Brief" öffnet die antike Briefforschung für transepochale Perspektiven auf Medialität, Materialität, Corpusbildung, das antike „Briefschreibbewusstsein“ u.v.m.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
#Briefforschung #ClassicsSky
Unser neues "Handbuch Brief" öffnet die antike Briefforschung für transepochale Perspektiven auf Medialität, Materialität, Corpusbildung, das antike „Briefschreibbewusstsein“ u.v.m.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
#Briefforschung #ClassicsSky
September 1, 2025 at 10:20 AM
In einem Land vor unserer Mailkultur...
Unser neues "Handbuch Brief" öffnet die antike Briefforschung für transepochale Perspektiven auf Medialität, Materialität, Corpusbildung, das antike „Briefschreibbewusstsein“ u.v.m.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
#Briefforschung #ClassicsSky
Unser neues "Handbuch Brief" öffnet die antike Briefforschung für transepochale Perspektiven auf Medialität, Materialität, Corpusbildung, das antike „Briefschreibbewusstsein“ u.v.m.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
#Briefforschung #ClassicsSky
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Live study sessions of Talmud for Everyone resumes co-led by Dr. Niculescu and yours truly. Fall schedule is available here: www.talmudforeveryone.com.
Talmud for everyone, Talmud forever!
Talmud for everyone, Talmud forever!
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August 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Live study sessions of Talmud for Everyone resumes co-led by Dr. Niculescu and yours truly. Fall schedule is available here: www.talmudforeveryone.com.
Talmud for everyone, Talmud forever!
Talmud for everyone, Talmud forever!
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Author copies have arrived! Official release date is 9/23 #GenderViolence
August 15, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Author copies have arrived! Official release date is 9/23 #GenderViolence
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My book is out online! It won’t feel real until the print book comes out in September, but I’m excited to see it out in the world at last.
Scriptural Figures and the Fringes of the New Testament Canon
Abstract. In the Catholic Epistles, canonicity and exemplarity are intertwined. Chapter 1 defines the concept of exemplarity as the use of a model-figure a
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July 16, 2025 at 4:46 AM
My book is out online! It won’t feel real until the print book comes out in September, but I’m excited to see it out in the world at last.
@lcbmphd.bsky.social Congratulations on her grant for the project “The book at the limits of Christian materiality”!!!
June 30, 2025 at 7:52 PM
@lcbmphd.bsky.social Congratulations on her grant for the project “The book at the limits of Christian materiality”!!!
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New article on the Song of Songs is published! aabner.org/ojs/index.ph...
The Divine Feminine in the Song of Songs
| Advances in Ancient, Biblical, and Near Eastern Research
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June 20, 2025 at 6:26 AM
New article on the Song of Songs is published! aabner.org/ojs/index.ph...
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"Distant Patterns, Close Up Insights: A Hybrid Approach to the Changing Status of Narrative Texts in Medieval Jewish Literature." Research spotlight by Annabelle Fuchs.
#jewishstudies
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#jewishstudies
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June 22, 2025 at 4:52 PM
"Distant Patterns, Close Up Insights: A Hybrid Approach to the Changing Status of Narrative Texts in Medieval Jewish Literature." Research spotlight by Annabelle Fuchs.
#jewishstudies
mjsnow.hypotheses.org/17843
#jewishstudies
mjsnow.hypotheses.org/17843
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Found out yesterday that my student numbers have doubled. Next year, I’ll be teaching 115 students European Prehistory at degree level. Plus first years. Not certain how.
That’s what happens when universities don’t replace retiring staff.
That’s what happens when universities don’t replace retiring staff.
May 24, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Found out yesterday that my student numbers have doubled. Next year, I’ll be teaching 115 students European Prehistory at degree level. Plus first years. Not certain how.
That’s what happens when universities don’t replace retiring staff.
That’s what happens when universities don’t replace retiring staff.
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New Books in Late Antiquity episode! Mike Motia interviews Andrew Griebeler about his book, Botanical Icons: Critical Practices of Illustration in the Premodern Mediterranean. newbooksnetwork.com/botanical-ic...
May 12, 2025 at 1:05 PM
New Books in Late Antiquity episode! Mike Motia interviews Andrew Griebeler about his book, Botanical Icons: Critical Practices of Illustration in the Premodern Mediterranean. newbooksnetwork.com/botanical-ic...
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Proofs day! Coming soon in open access to Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha.
May 9, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Proofs day! Coming soon in open access to Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha.
Prompt: a funky boom bap hiphop song about the Babylonian Talmud
Result: suno.com/s/6Px2DqdFuF...
Result: suno.com/s/6Px2DqdFuF...
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May 4, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Prompt: a funky boom bap hiphop song about the Babylonian Talmud
Result: suno.com/s/6Px2DqdFuF...
Result: suno.com/s/6Px2DqdFuF...
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Paperback publication day for Methods in Ancient Wine Archaeology with @divali.bsky.social 🎉🎉 only a year after hardcover! 🏺 🍇🍷
Still in full colour throughout and at the bargain price of £22: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/methods-i...
Still in full colour throughout and at the bargain price of £22: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/methods-i...
May 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Paperback publication day for Methods in Ancient Wine Archaeology with @divali.bsky.social 🎉🎉 only a year after hardcover! 🏺 🍇🍷
Still in full colour throughout and at the bargain price of £22: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/methods-i...
Still in full colour throughout and at the bargain price of £22: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/methods-i...
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New podcast episode! Lydia Bremer-McCollum interviews Monika Amsler about The Babylonian Talmud and Late Antique Book Culture. newbooksnetwork.com/the-babyloni...
April 30, 2025 at 1:05 PM
New podcast episode! Lydia Bremer-McCollum interviews Monika Amsler about The Babylonian Talmud and Late Antique Book Culture. newbooksnetwork.com/the-babyloni...
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I had the absolute pleasure of interviewing @monikaamsler.bsky.social for the Late Antiquity New Books Network channel hosted by @ancientjewreview.bsky.social. You should run and go read Dr. Amsler's open-access book! Listen why in our convo here:
newbooksnetwork.com/the-babyloni...
newbooksnetwork.com/the-babyloni...
Monika Amsler, "The Babylonian Talmud and Late Antique Book Culture" (Cambridge UP, 2023) - New Books Network
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April 30, 2025 at 11:22 AM
I had the absolute pleasure of interviewing @monikaamsler.bsky.social for the Late Antiquity New Books Network channel hosted by @ancientjewreview.bsky.social. You should run and go read Dr. Amsler's open-access book! Listen why in our convo here:
newbooksnetwork.com/the-babyloni...
newbooksnetwork.com/the-babyloni...
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New podcast episode! Michael Motia interviews Cam Grey about Living With Risk in the Late Roman World (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025). newbooksnetwork.com/living-with-...
April 28, 2025 at 7:03 PM
New podcast episode! Michael Motia interviews Cam Grey about Living With Risk in the Late Roman World (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025). newbooksnetwork.com/living-with-...
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🐮💭I'm fine, I can stop whenever I want
Entry:
נַגָּח
adj. addicted to goring
נַגָּח
adj. addicted to goring
April 28, 2025 at 8:19 AM
🐮💭I'm fine, I can stop whenever I want
Week-end = podcast time!
Brilliant interview about the fact that „putting one‘s name on a book is socially and culturally conditioned“! newbooksnetwork.com/the-author-i...
Brilliant interview about the fact that „putting one‘s name on a book is socially and culturally conditioned“! newbooksnetwork.com/the-author-i...
Chance E. Bonar, "The Author in Early Christian Literature" (Cambridge UP, 2025) - New Books Network
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April 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Week-end = podcast time!
Brilliant interview about the fact that „putting one‘s name on a book is socially and culturally conditioned“! newbooksnetwork.com/the-author-i...
Brilliant interview about the fact that „putting one‘s name on a book is socially and culturally conditioned“! newbooksnetwork.com/the-author-i...