Cairo Genizah - Cambridge - beekeeping
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Melonie Schmierer-Lee retweeted
🐝Just in time for #WorldBeeDay, we have a new Queen Bee at the UL hive! 🐝
This queen, who is about 6 days old, needs a name. Can you help us think of one?
📷Photos by Melonie Schmierer-Lee
#CambridgeUniversityLibary
ALT Bees, including the large Queen, in the beehive at Cambridge University Library
ALT The beehive at Cambridge University Library. It sits on a patch of grass to the side of the building, surrounded by a hedge.
The current British Museum exhibition ‘Silk Roads’ features 7 Genizah fragments from the Cambridge collection, reunited with an inscribed wood panel from the Ben Ezra synagogue:
lib.cam.ac.uk/genizah-fragme…
Melonie Schmierer-Lee retweeted
Francis caught while he was about to leave a little Christmas gift on one of the contributors' copies.. stopped right on time!
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A honeybee with two differently-coloured pollens (from the German Bee Journal). Bees are by no means preprogrammed to be flower-constant. If flowers of two species are equally rewarding & in close proximity, bees sometimes visit both
Melonie Schmierer-Lee retweeted
New podcast episode featuring A.J. Berkowitz's A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023). buff.ly/4fY9kiJ
New #Genizah interview with Drew Longacre, who is using Genizah manuscripts for a new critical edition of the Psalms. #Bible #Hebrew
lib.cam.ac.uk/genizah-fragme…
Melonie Schmierer-Lee retweeted
New Medieval Books - here is the pile we are working through - any of these books you are interested in? #books
Melonie Schmierer-Lee retweeted
This new book recently arrived for our library!
@NPosegay and @m_schmierer of the Genizah Research Unit at @theUL give a visual tour of some of the unique and amazing manuscripts from the Cairo Genizah, (re)discovered by Solomon Schechter and our own #SistersOfSinai in 1896.
Melonie Schmierer-Lee retweeted
Congratulations to Professor Ben Outhwaite on his appointment as Professor of Genizah Studies at Cambridge, recognizing his scholarship and leadership. We’re honored he co-edits our Cambridge Genizah Studies series (brill.com/CMGS). Learn more: lib.cam.ac.uk/genizah-fragme…
Melonie Schmierer-Lee retweeted
Happy Birthday to Sir Giles Gilbert Scott’s @theUL! Looking good after 90 years. 🥳
Melonie Schmierer-Lee retweeted
Want to learn Syriac this winter? Are you in the UK or Europe? Our director and malphono extraordinaire @GeorgeKiraz is heading to Cambridge in January to teach a week-long intensive.
Reserve your place now!
westminster.cam.ac.uk/syriac…
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If you're interested in the Arabic, Hebrew, and Syriac manuscript scholarship by the #SistersOfSinai, you might enjoy this new free exhibition, which includes 'exceptionally rare' African and Asian manuscripts on display @theUL. Runs til February 2025. cam.ac.uk/stories/Endless-St…
The Illustrated Cairo Genizah is now available to buy in the bookshop @theUL!
