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Sophia Dege-Müller
@sophiademue.bsky.social
Focus on Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies, manuscripts and art, Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jews), editorial team of @aethiopica.bsky.social , typo queen, working mom, sport enthusiast, food lover
Excited to share the article that @mmonier.bsky.social and I wrote on the Introduction to the Gospels by ibn al-Assal and its Arabic and Ethiopic traditions 🤩

brill.com/view/journal...
August 20, 2025 at 6:16 AM
On my way to Poland for this fun conference
June 23, 2025 at 7:28 AM
www.instagram.com/reel/DHWfzDJ...
She is talking about Slavery in Ethiopia and Eritrea and how it is still showing its effects till today!

Important topic - and great colleagues have amazing research coming up to discuss this matter
May 3, 2025 at 7:29 AM
I was kindly invited to write about Haffner's contribution to Ethiopian and Eritrean studies for Forum Hall
www.stadtarchaeologie-hall.at/der-verein/f...
April 17, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Its been a great 10 days 🤩 another publication has just come out! Dedicated to Prof. Dr. August Haffner, professor for Semitistik at Innsbruck @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social until he had to vacate the position in 1938 when Nazi regime came to power and forced him to leave.
April 17, 2025 at 12:39 PM
April 12, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Excited about my own article in the volume too.
I am discussing a specific Ethiopian manuscript artist and his peculiar style, in connection with the royal family in the early 15th cent. and their role as commissioners of de luxe manuscripts. doi.org/10.1515/9783111636344-010
April 9, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Check the table of content:
April 9, 2025 at 9:35 AM
over on the other evil app Prof. Ahab Bdaiwi mentioned it for Arabic and Persion manuscripts (👇). Prof. @farridnejad.bsky.social mentioned also Zoroastrian examples.
x.com/abhistoria/s...
March 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM
There is a scribal feature common to several religious traditions - to write the name of the devil/shaytan/diyablos upside down.
I mentioned this for the Ethiopian&Eritrean tradition in my PhD thesis - here its ዲያብሎስ - Diyablos
March 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM
March 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
SUMMER COURSES available in the lovely city of Venice, for a number of "classical oriental languages":

Coptic, Ethiopic (also Tigrinya), Armenian, Syriac, Demotic, Hebrew (etc.)
www.unil.ch/unil/fr/home...
March 13, 2025 at 10:26 AM
February 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Fieldwork grants in 2025 for PhD candidates & MA students working in Ethiopia 👇🤩
Application Deadline: 28th March 2025 cfee.hypotheses.org/11584
February 24, 2025 at 9:40 PM
January 31, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Viel Regen kann auch viel Spaß machen
January 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
January 26, 2025 at 8:28 PM
For all Berliners 😜The Militärhistorische Museum is hosting an exhibition dedicated to the famine in Ethiopia in '84/'85 and the involvement of both Western and Eastern German military in distributing aid - through private pictures taken by the soldiers on duty.
www.mhm-gatow.de/de/ausstellu...
January 15, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Job opening - 2 positions - digital humanities - related to Horn of Africa
www.asaiafrica.org/bandi-proget...
December 27, 2024 at 9:21 PM
Publication day🥳🥳
Together with my dear colleague Bar Kribus I wrote on

"Betä Esra'el (Ethiopian Jewish)–Ethiopian Orthodox Interaction in the Semien Mountains of Northern Ethiopia. A View from the Bet Esra'el Monastic Centre of Semien Menata"

www.arc-humanities.org/978164189387...
December 3, 2024 at 9:23 AM
Welcome to my new followers - feels amazing. 🤩

I want to share a bit about my interst with you. I am a scholar of #EthiopianStudies and lover of Ethiopian and Eritrean manuscripts.
My focus is especially on the Beta Israel - the Ethiopian Jews and their manuscripts, history and traditions.
November 28, 2024 at 2:01 PM
At the church of purgatory in Naples
November 23, 2024 at 12:12 AM
Headded to Naples for a fantastic workshop on Cataloguing Ethiopian and Eritrean Manuscripts!

I will speak about my favourite topic - the Beta Isrsel manuscript tradition! 🤩
#Ethiopia #manuscripts #BetaIsrael
November 20, 2024 at 8:53 AM
Merry Christmas for all who celebrate now!
January 6, 2024 at 9:39 AM
17th c. Indian painting called "An African Lyre Player" more: "Many Africans, mainly from Ethiopia, settled in the Deccan, on the western coast of southern India, where they found employment as soldiers, mercenaries, and administrators" Cleveland Museum of Art www.clevelandart.org/art/2013.289.a
December 13, 2023 at 2:21 PM