#Palimpsest

I woke up today from a dream of being a palimpsest, a poorly-erased and continuously overwritten parchment of sentiment and traumaThis is the truest explanation or analog for time and

Today’s #SyriacPalimpsestsMonday I would like to devote to the oldest dated #Biblical #manuscript in existence. Those familiar with the field of #Syriac studies, might think in this respect of the

Eléonore Cellard

CellardEleonore

Thread. Ṣan‘ā’ DAM 01.29-11/12. We know today dozens of very early Qur’āns. All of them have only slight consonantal variants and follow the same order of the sūras (identical to

Sh. Ammar Khatib

Lately, many people have been bringing up the San'a' palimpsest to prove that the Qur'an wasn't preserved. This "discovery" is supposed to destroy the preservation "myth".I will be addressing this

shrikanth_krish

A common western critique of HindusHindus are not "humanists". They don't value equality of all human life. Hindus view society as comprising of many human species (jAtis)RealityThis "narrow-minded" country has

Eléonore Cellard

CellardEleonore

Thread : The Ṣan‘ā’ palimpsest – lower text (SI) – and the basmala of sūra at-Tawba1/10. Dār al-Maḫṭūṭāt, 01-27.1, f.5A, SI, holds the end of sūra 8 and the beginning

For Orthodox Christians, today is the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. Read the story--it's a wild ride. The "veracity" of which the historian in me sometimes struggles

Mohsen Goudarzi

Islamic literature on the Qur’an reports many textual variants that do not conform to the ‘Uthmanic skeletal text (rasm), often attributing such variants to Companions of the Prophet who allegedly

Sh. Ammar Khatib

I have several threads on many topics related to Ahruf and Qira'at. I thought it would be better if I have all the links in one place for easy access.

Marijn "i before j" van Putten

So now we've talked about the establishment of the canon of Quranic recitation, some questions arose about pre-Uthmanic recitations and written forms of the Quran arose. What were they like,

Friendless Churches

friendschurches

Deep in the Black Mountains is an ancient oval churchyard. It encloses a sandstone rubble church that has clung to the slope for over 800 years. A sundial by the

A marvelous community of historians waded into the mess @HFranceWebsite to challenge the misrepresentation of Haiti, deflections abt slavery in Africa... As a literary scholar I want to pause on

Lauren Grace Thompson

Starting my #AudioDramaSunday thread early this week because Halloween is tomorrow, so there's just enough time to get some themed listening in that I want to shout out! @palimpsestpod has

I finished reading this excellent study that came out in 2020. It is a highly rigorous and in-depth (sometimes to the point of exhaustion) source-critical analysis of what is known

Sarah Churchwell

sarahchurchwell

So now it seems, thanks to @faisalislam and others, as if Cummings may be going back and editing his blogs to make himself sound prophetic - and then telling us

EbWatchesTrek - #LowerDecks Coming August 6! 🖖🏿

The problem of amalgamation isn't uniquely Black American (fantasy worldbuilding post-Tolkien; USA's founding mythologies), although I agree it's a problem for us. I guess...I have to write about this. (There