Simcha Gross
@Simcha_GrossAssistant Professor of Ancient Jewish History @Penn @UPennNELC. Author of Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism @CambridgeUP
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We have a cover! Jews vs Rome, coming August 2025. Available for pre-order, bit.ly/4fdkiAn
A little joy for the day because Ancient Jew Review is 10 Years Old! Advisory Board member Andrew Jacobs reflects upon AJR's founders and the past decade. buff.ly/4hIdlsT
10 years ago we had an idea to make an online space to feature academic work about Jews and their neighbors in the ancient world. Feels like such a lifetime ago!
A little joy for the day because Ancient Jew Review is 10 Years Old! Advisory Board member Andrew Jacobs reflects upon AJR's founders and the past decade. buff.ly/4hIdlsT
#openaccess Locating al-Qadisiyyah: mapping Iraq's most famous early Islamic conquest site | Antiquity | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/4hHp6zN
The fact that they found the battlefield of Qadisiya by following al-Tabari shows a. what an amazing historian he was and b. how many low hanging fruit there still are in Islamic archaeology.
#openaccess Locating al-Qadisiyyah: mapping Iraq's most famous early Islamic conquest site | Antiquity | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/4hHp6zN
Publication day! 🤩🤩 We are very excited that the first volume of Narsai's homilies is out! peeters-leuven.be/detail.php?sea… Congratulations to @HealKristian, @philipforness, @Simcha_Gross, and @ErinCGW @PeetersPub
🧵1/8 Very happy to have received proofs for the first volume of Narsai: The Homilies (Peeters). Contributors to the first volume include @HealKristian, @philipforness, @Simcha_Gross, and @ErinCGW
The “Star of David” is in the news; for those interested in the history of this and other symbols, see the references here (for Star of David, Gershom Scholem’s famous essay)
So much Jewish symbolism & practice derives from a history of magic: The Star of David, known in antiquity as the Seal of Solomon! The Hamsa🪬, AKA the hand of Fatima! Phylacteries & mezuzah, i.e. prescribed amulets! The nightly prayer originates in Jewish incantations! 1/2
The first talk in the Do you Believe in Magic Series is now available to watch on YouTube! youtube.com/watch?v=v98lcN… The next talk in the series is tomorrow at 12:00 pm ET.
Now available for preorder: The Reception of Philo of Alexandria (tinyurl.com/mwss8cwn), TOC below.
A little write up about the Festschrift for Dieter Weber, edited by Maria Macuch and me, which was published this week. ّI would appreciate retweets 🙏🏼 arashzeini.com/deciphering-th…
Mike Motia interviews AJR's own co-founding editor, Simcha Gross, about his new book Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity (Cambridge UP, 2024). buff.ly/4hhOrQL
My first ever podcast interview, discussing my new book Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity, is now out! Could not have asked for a better host than @mikemotia! open.spotify.com/episode/2rlpmJ…
Too on the nose that the first page of Derrida’s personal seminar notes shown here includes the handwritten scribble “the meaning of meaning.”
Well, this is cool: 25,000 unpublished pages of Jacques Derrida's seminar notes between 1959 and 2003 has been published online for free: dpul.princeton.edu/derridaseminars
Sad how the premise of this piece falls firmly within the kind of racialized thinking that informed Spanish inquisitorial policies towards Jews and “conversos.” See this excellent piece by David Nirenberg: academic.oup.com/chicago-schola…
Columbus remains, verified after 500 years, show he was Jewish: documentary trib.al/7JsRzaM
Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, begins tonight. The liturgy is now thoroughly rabbinic, but over 100 years ago, a fragmentary Hebrew papyrus was discovered at Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, which dates to around the 4th century CE. It contains some form of liturgy for Yom Kippur. 1/4
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