Philological Essayist @PhilologicalEssayist@qoto.org
Always eager to broaden knowledge, and my digital library, on languages and philology. Writes at: https://philologicaltryouts.substack.com
Joined Nov 2022
New publication from your Philological Essayist! First longer translation from Syriac. Second part of the first sermon of the Book of Steps will be translated in a next publication on the same Substack channel! #Syriac #Philology #Christianity #Translation https://open.substack.com/pub/philologicaltryouts/p/step-by-step-through-the-book-of?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=kir9a
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The making of Syriac Jerusalem & Soul and body diseases
Two books that have been published in 2023 and will be of interest to the readers of our site: Popa, Catalin-Stefan. 2023. The making of Syriac Jerusalem: Representations of the Holy City in Syriac literature of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Routledge Studies in the Early Christian World). London and New York: Routledge. This book discusses hagiographic, historiographical, hymnological, and theological…
https://www.biblioiranica.info/the-making-of-syriac-jerusalem-soul-and-body-diseases/
Have a good festive season, and all the best for 2024!
Part 3 of my translation on Catholicism in Confucian Choseon Korea: https://philologicaltryouts.substack.com/p/argumentative-text-against-catholicism-c67?utm_medium=reader2 #ClassicalChinese #Korea #Philology #Translation #Catholicism #Confucianism
Hi everyone. New post is out on my Substack. First one after quite some time. Check it out, it's about intelligent music. https://philologicaltryouts.substack.com/p/proposal-for-a-new-old-summer-hit
It's been a while since my last album recommendation (or my very last sign of life here on Mastodon/QOTO, for that matter), so here you have a brand new one, for rather old music. Album: Hölderlins Traum (1972) by the West German band Hölderlin. Link: youtu.be/iGn6nLaTfqU.
Part 2 of an 18th Century Korean scholar's text lambasting Catholicism. Translated from Classical Chinese + annotated by yours truly: https://philologicaltryouts.substack.com/p/argumentative-text-against-catholicism-d40?utm_medium=reader2 .
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Dan Nexon, Rob Farley, and I talk about China and the Republican Party and the Discord leaks. And of course Russia and Ukraine.
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2023/04/lgm-podcast-its-a-mad-mad-mad-mad-world
Thought it might be nice to throw in an album recommendation for good measure (should do it more often): Guruh Gipsy (album of same name, Indonesia). The remastering may well have happened in 2021, but it's originally from 1976, I believe. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TA3PLQ9Kjc&t=1729s
https://twitter.com/PEssayist/status/1649829955725938689 Question on the #AlbanianLanguage . Basically, I would like to know if the possessive pronoun referring to one person ("my," "your (thy)," "his"/"her"/"its" could also come before, instead of after, certain nouns for family members, if they occur in plural (e.g. "my sons"). #Albanian #Grammar
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Calling all Semiticists! Šlomo Surayt II ܫܠܳܡܐ ܣܘܪܰܝܬ ܒ – An Advanced Course in Surayt-Aramaic (Turoyo) has now been released both as online course and as textbook, and is freely available at http://www.surayt.com
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New Reading Book of #MiddleEgyptian Texts. Selected and Edited by Adriaan de Buck. With a New Introduction and Additional Texts Collected by Olaf E. Kaper ⏤Olaf E. Kaper
Explore further information about this exciting new edition on our website: https://www.peeters-leuven.be/detail.php?search_key=9789042946934&series_number_str=33&lang=en
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Once again, libraries, the public domain and our digital rights are under attack and need our help. I almost never sign petitions, but the Battle for Libraries is an important cause. So I signed up to resist big publishing's greedy shareholders & to speak out for an open internet with uncensored access to knowledge. In loving memory of Aaron Swartz!
https://www.battleforlibraries.com/
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Twitter now disables likes, replies, and retweets if a tweet has Substack links https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/6/23673043/twitter-substack-embeds-bots-tools-api
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“the chosen one” meme is not enough
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Twitter now disables likes, replies, and retweets if a tweet has Substack links https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/6/23673043/twitter-substack-embeds-bots-tools-api
https://twitter.com/KevinRothrock/status/1644375890892029963
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Here's a Proto-Amazigh reconstruction as requested by @irzastan . Big thanks to @ait_kisou who had a lot of excellent suggestions while translating this. Again, happy to answer any questions on the reconstruction! https://twitter.com/bnuyaminim/status/1641770193788469249
A new post on Substack for the first time in quite some time: https://philologicaltryouts.substack.com/p/a-sign-of-life-after-quite-some-time?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
New article authored by yours truly. On a project concerning endangered manuscripts in Southeast Asia. https://digitalorientalist.com/2023/03/28/dreamsea/ #DigitalHumanities #SoutheastAsia #Philology
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The really remarkable thing isn't just that #Microsoft has decided that the future of #search isn't links to relevant materials, but instead lengthy, florid paragraphs written by a #chatbot who happens to be a habitual liar - even more remarkable is that #Google agrees.
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/16/tweedledumber/#easily-spooked
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Always eager to broaden knowledge, and my digital library, on languages and philology. Writes at: https://philologicaltryouts.substack.com
Joined Nov 2022
