Inna Shtakser

Palestinian Scholarship

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The opening of the Gospel of St Matthew from the Bodmin Gospels.

A decorated canon table from the Bodmin Gospels.

The opening of the Gospel of St Mark from the Bodmin Gospels.

A page from the Bodmin Gospels, showing a set of added manumissions, or documents concerning the release of slaves.

A few folios from the Bodmin Gospels (Add MS 9381), a 9th-century Breton Gospel-book that was brought to Bodmin in Cornwall by the end of the 10th century. It's notable for its added manumissions, documents recording the free of slaves.

@ccurran.bsky.social

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I spent 4 months trying to answer a simple question: has this book been translated into my language?
Turns out no one tracks this. Not ISBN registries. Not Amazon. Not Google. Not libraries.
So I built a tool that crosses four databases to piece it together.
zenodot.app

Plaque with swallow (Late Period - Hellenistic Period (400-30 BCE)) Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy

Plaque with swallow (Late Period - Hellenistic Period (400-30 BCE))

Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy

Coin used as Leeds bus fare was 2,000‑year‑old currency The coin was handed down to Peter Edwards from his grandfather in the 1950s.

This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Russia kills 10 in Ukraine strike including children with new missile

Russia kills 10 in Ukraine strike including children with new missile https://aje.news/jlsnj8

Pyramidion of the royal scribe Ramose (Deir el-Medina, New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, reign of Ramesses II (1275-1240 BCE)) Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy

Pyramidion of the royal scribe Ramose (Deir el-Medina, New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, reign of Ramesses II (1275-1240 BCE))

Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy

Western Newfoundland and Labrador Road Trip on Viking Trail Drive the spectacular Viking Trail through Western Newfoundland and Labrador to Gros Morne, Red Bay and the Viking settlement at L’Anse aux Meadows.

One of Canada’s most spectacular road trips runs through Western Newfoundland and Labrador
Discover fjords, coastal villages, drifting icebergs, Viking history
Here’s how to explore it
#Travel
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✏️ The River Danube in #Wallachia, City of Braila, #Romania, 1826

Prominent feminist activist Yanar Mohammed shot dead in Iraq Organisation for Women's Freedom in Iraq calls campaigner's death a 'tremendous loss' for rights activists

Prominent feminist activist Yanar Mohammed shot dead in Iraq - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/prominent-feminist-activist-yanar-mohammed-shot-dead-iraq

Quality Sixteen Disaster films are in again: zombies and apocalyptic nightmares--nature as the enemy. Our culture's appetite for science and catastrophe projected now on several screens at once. Abbot & Costello meet the Mummy scared me half to death, but like a gateway drug it led me on to harder stuff: Earthquake, Lester's Juggernaut and Jaws--the purest angel dust of features. Psychologists believe our deepest fears are rooted in the memories we share. Historians might disagree--this turning outward is a wartime theme. So's naked tyranny. PHILLIP CRYMBLE

A poem of our moment as it first appeared over 20 years ago in the pages of The Stinging Fly

Maybe it’s because I’m a colonial historian but so many of these white nation states seem to behave exactly like they did in the 19th century: ‘your leaders aren’t right for you,’ ‘we’re only killing you/colonizing you/installing puppet leaders for your own good’

«Слышу за пять хопов с Беговой» Meshtastic — это почти полноценный интернет своими руками. И рост блокировок в России только помогает распространению этой технологии

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📷 A Street in Cerrahpaşa, Istanbul, 1890s

a man is driving a car and pointing at the camera while another man sits in the back seat . ALT: a man is driving a car and pointing at the camera while another man sits in the back seat .

Revising an academic manuscript, as told in Matthew McConaughey GIFs.

Phase 1: Completing the first draft and deluding yourself it's perfect. You did it!

After the room is still the air heavy the floor damp with rain now the storm has ebbed away but you you sit with me you you hold my hand saying nothing just here here

Nice to be able to post a quick little poem for #poemsabout #spent after a bit of an enforced absence last week (bad cold). Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk / @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the prompt and to everyone contributing! #poems #poetry #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #scottishpoetry

every time i interact with customer service now, i gleefully take the “how did we do?” survey and type in all caps the person who helped me’s name, five stars, glowing praise, and demand they be given a raise. even if the interaction made me rip my hair out.

“Flagrant War Crime”: Investigation Recreates 2025 Israeli Massacre, Cover-Up of 15 Gaza Aid Workers It’s been almost one year since Israeli forces killed 15 Palestinian medics and aid workers in a brutal two-hour massacre on a vehicle convoy in southern Gaza. Israeli soldiers had attempted to cover ...

“Flagrant War Crime”: Investigation Recreates 2025 Israeli Massacre, Cover-Up of 15 Gaza Aid Workers

HOUR The extra hour given back to eternity The hour gained by travelling west The hour of the imagined empire The deepest hour of the darkest sea The guilty hour that precedes catastrophe The hour that it takes to go from here to there The haunted hour of the knowledge of death The hour in which the moon darkens The hour that moves through the mind like cloud shadow The blue hour that rests on the roof of the house The hour that is the mother of minutes and grandmother of seconds The swollen hour of pain, enough, enough The hour when mice run in the walls The bronze hour of electrical weather The cloistered hour of the nun's great moment The necklace of hours the widow wears The numbing hours of a night in Nome The sound of hours in the breathing of plants The central hour that exists without you The hour in which the universe begins to die The hallucinatory hour that hangs forever The hour of excess that equals two of self-examination The hour that flashed on the skin The hour of final music The hour of painless solitude The hour of moonlight upon her body

Mark Strand's "Hour" as it first appeared in The New Yorker.

Harvard Study Finds Ancient Carthaginians Were Genetically Closer to Greeks Than Phoenicians
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Nothing prettier than a cardinal in the snow. Still coming down pretty good here in NJ.

A process begun already in 2014 with the state takeover of the Perm-36 gulag museum and its conversion into a museum honoring the prison guards.

I interviewed the original directors of Perm-36 as well as the advisor for its replacement and wrote about it here:

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#PaintedLady
#DetroitAbloom #Detroit #MI

#butterflies
#photography
#birdphotography
#butterfliesofbluesky
#nature
#wildlife
#wildlifephotography

Palmettos

Palmettos https://www.wikiart.org/en/john-singer-sargent/palmettos-1917

Loved this at Pompeii: either side of the fountainhead are indentations worn into the stone rim by the hands of people drawing water 2,000 years ago #Roman

Costumes of the Women of Sudan
ca. 1825

#ethnographxt

Is it time, again, to ask my perennial question "hey academics are you reconsidering research trips and conferences in the US now" (answer: no, because everyone has already decided that either it doesn't apply to them and doesn't matter, or answered 'hell no' from the start).

#MosaicMonday at the British Museum. Here we have a detail from a larger Marine Life Mosaic. Two sea nymphs riding on tritons accompanied by dolphins.

Mid-2nd Century AD, Carthage.

#AncientBlueSky🏺

Comb, late 15th or early 16th century, Northern French (Met Museum)

🔴 In the past 24 hrs, Gaza’s Health Ministry reported 10 killed & 9 injured arriving at hospitals.

Since the “ceasefire” on Oct. 11, 2025:
➤ Total killed: 601
➤ Total injured: 1,607
➤ Bodies recovered from the rubble: 726

▪️This brings the recorded death toll from the Israeli genocide in Gaza to...