Biblia Arabica

Biblia Arabica is a 21-year project to find & publish historic Jewish & Christian translations of the Tanakh/OT in #Arabic =~8K #manuscripts & fragments around the 🌍 Teams @goetheuni.bsky.social @jacculturelmu.bsky.social @lmu.de Funded @adwmainz.bsky.social BAdW @akademienunion.bsky.social

We were generously welcomed in the papal residence and enjoyed so much the wonderful atmosphere in Wādī al-Naṭrūn. Spending some time with high quality images of manuscripts is certainly a plus!

Our new academies project "Biblia Arabica" @biblia-arabica.com is now on Bluesky! Leave a follow and stay up to date with our research on Jewish and Christian Arabic translations of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. bsky.app/profile/bibl...

@vevianzaki.bsky.social and Ronny Vollandt travelled to Egypt on behalf of Biblia Arabica to secure access to manuscripts for the project and strengthen its network of scholarly and institutional partners. Ronny Vollandt also gifted the entire Biblia Arabica series to the Papal Library.

From Aug 3–7, Bucharest hosted the 14th World Congress of Syriac Studies & 12th International Conference on Christian Arab Studies. 🌍🇷🇴 Over 400 scholars presented 300+ papers. V. Zaki, H. Ibrahim & F. Frigo contributed to the programme, as well as N.Gibson who presented the Biblia Arabica project.