Today is the publication day for _ Scribal Worlds: Scholarship and classification in cuneiform cultures _ Bravo e Brava to editors Eduardo A. Escobar @knpazuzu.bsky.social & C. Jay Crisostomo (Editor). It is free / open access to read! uclpress.co.uk/book/scribal... ✍️
Scribal Worlds
Scribal Worlds: Scholarship and classification in cuneiform cultures delves into the history of the earliest writing cultures of the ancient Middle East, bridging disciplines that include ancient hist...
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June 29, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Today is the publication day for _ Scribal Worlds: Scholarship and classification in cuneiform cultures _ Bravo e Brava to editors Eduardo A. Escobar @knpazuzu.bsky.social & C. Jay Crisostomo (Editor). It is free / open access to read! uclpress.co.uk/book/scribal... ✍️
Shoutout to this kindergarten teacher @lhistorienne.bsky.social sent me teaching her students to read by teaching them scribal history
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November 12, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Shoutout to this kindergarten teacher @lhistorienne.bsky.social sent me teaching her students to read by teaching them scribal history
www.instagram.com/reel/DP7XGH5...
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lots more amazing scribes here
stamscribes.com
stamscribes.com
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Stam Scribes Scribal Collective - Torah Repair, Torah Commissions, Jewish Education
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June 8, 2026 at 2:31 AM
lots more amazing scribes here
stamscribes.com
stamscribes.com
i particularly love the bemoaning of "xmas", an abbreviation that originates in medieval christian scribal tradition
“What is the crime? Enjoying a wokeless Christmas? A succulent wokeless Christmas?” screams Keith as the Woke Police cart him away in their low emission electric paddy wagon for saying the word “Christmas”.
December 17, 2024 at 12:00 PM
i particularly love the bemoaning of "xmas", an abbreviation that originates in medieval christian scribal tradition
Bastard anglicana remains the funniest possible name for a widely used scribal hand.
February 16, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Bastard anglicana remains the funniest possible name for a widely used scribal hand.
Also, scrawlings of an Iron Age civilization that had entire scribal schools in conscious imitation of best writing practices in known world.
Kingdom of Judaea wasn't a great power, but not exactly bumfuckisville.
Kingdom of Judaea wasn't a great power, but not exactly bumfuckisville.
October 6, 2026 at 10:50 AM
Also, scrawlings of an Iron Age civilization that had entire scribal schools in conscious imitation of best writing practices in known world.
Kingdom of Judaea wasn't a great power, but not exactly bumfuckisville.
Kingdom of Judaea wasn't a great power, but not exactly bumfuckisville.
Heard "scribal error" pronounced as "scribble error" and you know what, fair
July 23, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Heard "scribal error" pronounced as "scribble error" and you know what, fair
Wanna know something cool?
This scroll of the Book of Esther was scribed by a 14 year-old named Luna Ambron in 1767 in Rome--
and it's one of the very few pieces of the sacred scribal arts that we *know* to have been scribed by a girl/woman before the 21st c. (Scribes don't sign their work sooo.)
This scroll of the Book of Esther was scribed by a 14 year-old named Luna Ambron in 1767 in Rome--
and it's one of the very few pieces of the sacred scribal arts that we *know* to have been scribed by a girl/woman before the 21st c. (Scribes don't sign their work sooo.)
June 8, 2026 at 1:31 AM
Wanna know something cool?
This scroll of the Book of Esther was scribed by a 14 year-old named Luna Ambron in 1767 in Rome--
and it's one of the very few pieces of the sacred scribal arts that we *know* to have been scribed by a girl/woman before the 21st c. (Scribes don't sign their work sooo.)
This scroll of the Book of Esther was scribed by a 14 year-old named Luna Ambron in 1767 in Rome--
and it's one of the very few pieces of the sacred scribal arts that we *know* to have been scribed by a girl/woman before the 21st c. (Scribes don't sign their work sooo.)
Scribal joy! (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Ch. Oxon 13, c. 1220)
January 30, 2026 at 10:40 PM
Scribal joy! (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Ch. Oxon 13, c. 1220)
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Palaeographer: The cup is a scribal error for tuþ
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Palaeographer: The cup is a scribal error for tuþ
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Historian: The cup can teach you a lot of things that you do not want to know
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Historian: The cup can teach you a lot of things that you do not want to know
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Science Fiction Writer: The cup is a crystalline super computer and the liquid is hyperintelligent, they want to know why humanity should be allowed to exist, you have 30 minutes to respond and the answer must be danced by a cat
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Science Fiction Writer: The cup is a crystalline super computer and the liquid is hyperintelligent, they want to know why humanity should be allowed to exist, you have 30 minutes to respond and the answer must be danced by a cat
August 22, 2026 at 4:31 AM
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Palaeographer: The cup is a scribal error for tuþ
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Palaeographer: The cup is a scribal error for tuþ
It’s here 📖 ✍️
“Scribal Worlds: Scholarship and classification in cuneiform cultures” is out today from UCL Press— in print & free open access PDF.
Co-editing it with Jay and Eduardo, in honor of Niek Veldhuis, has been one of the most meaningful projects.
uclpress.co.uk/book/scribal...
“Scribal Worlds: Scholarship and classification in cuneiform cultures” is out today from UCL Press— in print & free open access PDF.
Co-editing it with Jay and Eduardo, in honor of Niek Veldhuis, has been one of the most meaningful projects.
uclpress.co.uk/book/scribal...
Scribal Worlds
Scribal Worlds: Scholarship and classification in cuneiform cultures delves into the history of the earliest writing cultures of the ancient Middle East, bridging disciplines that include ancient hist...
uclpress.co.uk
June 29, 2026 at 6:43 PM
It’s here 📖 ✍️
“Scribal Worlds: Scholarship and classification in cuneiform cultures” is out today from UCL Press— in print & free open access PDF.
Co-editing it with Jay and Eduardo, in honor of Niek Veldhuis, has been one of the most meaningful projects.
uclpress.co.uk/book/scribal...
“Scribal Worlds: Scholarship and classification in cuneiform cultures” is out today from UCL Press— in print & free open access PDF.
Co-editing it with Jay and Eduardo, in honor of Niek Veldhuis, has been one of the most meaningful projects.
uclpress.co.uk/book/scribal...
Absolutely thrilled to learn that my #50PreciousWords story, SCRIBAL SCHOOL: MESOPOTAMIA'S FIRST WRITERS took 8th place! 🎉😃🏺
You can read the full story here & learn more about the cuneiform tablets that inspired it: katiemcenaney.com/scribal-scho...
Thank you @viviankirkfield.bsky.social !
You can read the full story here & learn more about the cuneiform tablets that inspired it: katiemcenaney.com/scribal-scho...
Thank you @viviankirkfield.bsky.social !
March 31, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Absolutely thrilled to learn that my #50PreciousWords story, SCRIBAL SCHOOL: MESOPOTAMIA'S FIRST WRITERS took 8th place! 🎉😃🏺
You can read the full story here & learn more about the cuneiform tablets that inspired it: katiemcenaney.com/scribal-scho...
Thank you @viviankirkfield.bsky.social !
You can read the full story here & learn more about the cuneiform tablets that inspired it: katiemcenaney.com/scribal-scho...
Thank you @viviankirkfield.bsky.social !
it’s a scribal error: “NO LXX BIBL” — the child is anti-Septuagint???
December 12, 2025 at 12:23 AM
it’s a scribal error: “NO LXX BIBL” — the child is anti-Septuagint???
From Shai-Hulud's Scribal Academy!
November 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
From Shai-Hulud's Scribal Academy!
If the 'Odyssey' was historically accurate to the Bronze Age Aegean, Ithaka would have a whole department of scribal accountants doing bookkeeping on clay tablets in Linear B.
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July 12, 2026 at 7:41 AM
If the 'Odyssey' was historically accurate to the Bronze Age Aegean, Ithaka would have a whole department of scribal accountants doing bookkeeping on clay tablets in Linear B.
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I have to say, the Torah is quite an impressive bit of literature once you actually delve into the details. The mode of transmission from oral stories into written texts continually edited by scribal communities makes for an immense lot of puns and impressive internal references.
December 21, 2024 at 2:58 PM
I have to say, the Torah is quite an impressive bit of literature once you actually delve into the details. The mode of transmission from oral stories into written texts continually edited by scribal communities makes for an immense lot of puns and impressive internal references.
Visual media imitating other media is fascinating. I once found a manuscript where the scribe imitated embroidered text that was itself an imitation of scribal calligraphy.
These fragments from a Roman villa in Spain are not from a mosaic but from a fresco. If you look closely you’ll see a grid of lines, many following the contour of the figures, much as tesserae do on mosaics. This trompe-l’oeil technique simulates mosaics. 1/ 🏺
1st-2nd c. Museo de Málaga
📸 me
1st-2nd c. Museo de Málaga
📸 me
October 2, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Visual media imitating other media is fascinating. I once found a manuscript where the scribe imitated embroidered text that was itself an imitation of scribal calligraphy.
Scrivener is another word for a scribe.
(Old French escrivre, but I'll leave that second).
Creating a new, retrospective order that reaches back six years is not a scribal correction. It's utter BS.
(Old French escrivre, but I'll leave that second).
Creating a new, retrospective order that reaches back six years is not a scribal correction. It's utter BS.
December 12, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Scrivener is another word for a scribe.
(Old French escrivre, but I'll leave that second).
Creating a new, retrospective order that reaches back six years is not a scribal correction. It's utter BS.
(Old French escrivre, but I'll leave that second).
Creating a new, retrospective order that reaches back six years is not a scribal correction. It's utter BS.
a more complex issue than people think
1. lectio difficilior is a basic, if not somewhat flawed, principle that when there are manuscript variants, the more difficult or strange option is to be preferred because it is unlikely that copying error or scribal intervention would produce something weird
1. lectio difficilior is a basic, if not somewhat flawed, principle that when there are manuscript variants, the more difficult or strange option is to be preferred because it is unlikely that copying error or scribal intervention would produce something weird
October 2, 2026 at 3:56 PM
a more complex issue than people think
1. lectio difficilior is a basic, if not somewhat flawed, principle that when there are manuscript variants, the more difficult or strange option is to be preferred because it is unlikely that copying error or scribal intervention would produce something weird
1. lectio difficilior is a basic, if not somewhat flawed, principle that when there are manuscript variants, the more difficult or strange option is to be preferred because it is unlikely that copying error or scribal intervention would produce something weird
Scribal tippex.
One fascinating discovery has been the use of a white, paint-like substance used by the scribes to make corrections – centuries before corrective fluids made their way onto our desks. 🧵
May 13, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Scribal tippex.
Delighted to be a runner-up in @ucddublin.bsky.social research images award @artshumanitiesucd.bsky.social with this page from @folger.edu V.b.198, Anne Southwell’s scribal letter about poetry written to Lady Cecelia Ridgeway ca.1626-7
January 28, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Delighted to be a runner-up in @ucddublin.bsky.social research images award @artshumanitiesucd.bsky.social with this page from @folger.edu V.b.198, Anne Southwell’s scribal letter about poetry written to Lady Cecelia Ridgeway ca.1626-7
Last semester I literally got out the feathers, don’t put this past me to do again
September 16, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Last semester I literally got out the feathers, don’t put this past me to do again
To reverse-engineer it into vitriol for scribal ink
Anyway, what would a Jew do with barrels of sulphuric acid?
Wrong answers only
Wrong answers only
(((Dragons)))‽
April 23, 2026 at 4:50 PM
To reverse-engineer it into vitriol for scribal ink
Guys guys guys it's whales and there's a very amusing scribal error at the heart of it all, but everyone proposing sea lions is very lovely :)
Not sure if I'm understanding this correctly but... sea leopards? Is thing? Or is it just that there are creatures who move through the sea [and] leopards... @acbm.bsky.social ??
(I want sea leopards to be a thing though...)
(I want sea leopards to be a thing though...)
September 9, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Guys guys guys it's whales and there's a very amusing scribal error at the heart of it all, but everyone proposing sea lions is very lovely :)