Knowledge Commons | Adam Bremer-McCollum | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/adambremermccollum/activity/ Activity feed for Adam Bremer-McCollum. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:39:36 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 8de449dc6b10b8434fe340907fae70be Adam Bremer-McCollum's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1928287/ Mon, 22 Sep 2025 19:37:37 -0400 0 a8e8dd7034fe0b1465b4ee4064dc1e8b Adam Bremer-McCollum's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1841655/ Sun, 16 Apr 2023 19:04:50 -0400 0 8ae284bb6df1b04c86586521ac5b262b Adam Bremer-McCollum deposited roots & radicals, patterns & affixes: a first meeting with Gəʕəz/ግዕዝ፡ https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1838509/ Sat, 25 Mar 2023 11:15:22 -0400 A short introduction to Gəʕəz (Old Ethiopic), highlighting root and pattern structures.

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]]> 0 5b447b292c661f3b49fd695c8b17eaf0 Adam Bremer-McCollum deposited "Write the book's language on turquoise monuments": considering a Coptic dictionary of the Nag Hammadi texts https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1824905/ Sun, 04 Dec 2022 12:27:42 -0500 This talk will explore some advantages and practical considerations of a Coptic dictionary dedicated specifically to the Nag Hammadi (NH) corpus.
Crum's dictionary, as impressive and dialect-spanning as it is, was completed in 1939, before the NH texts were known. There is a sufficient number of scholars and students specifically interested in…[Read more]

]]> 0 61176d63cde681e7b09c36e9c41fb272 Adam Bremer-McCollum's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1754845/ Mon, 11 Oct 2021 10:33:04 -0400 0 637c849fc22142ddb24555da33b03d96 Adam Bremer-McCollum's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1754071/ Thu, 07 Oct 2021 11:17:41 -0400 0 bd6d09322711c6a1cd623548855e32d8 Adam Bremer-McCollum deposited Garshuni As It Is: Some Observations from Reading East and West Syriac Manuscripts https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1754032/ Thu, 07 Oct 2021 00:10:39 -0400 Syriac script has been used to write several languages other than Syriac, the most well known of which is Arabic, a phenomenon known generally and simply as Garshuni. While both Syriac and Arabic belong to the Semitic family of languages and thus share some phonological similarities, there are also differences. In addition, we are dealing with…[Read more]

]]> 0 c841ee1f0a2a90074a406c0ef22f3ba3 Adam Bremer-McCollum deposited The Rejoicing Sailor and the Rotting Hand: Two Formulas in Syriac and Arabic Colophons With Related Phenomena in Some Other Languages https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1754031/ Thu, 07 Oct 2021 00:08:41 -0400 A common simile in Greek colophons likens the scribe at the end of the copying work to a sailor reaching harbor, and Greek colophons also sometimes include lines contrasting the abiding power of written texts and the short-lived hands that wrote them. Formulas of both of these kinds also appear in Syriac and Arabic manuscripts. They have been…[Read more]

]]> 0 4559fa5c95a9fe7999e2a02126d6de6d Adam Bremer-McCollum deposited Prolegomena to a New Edition of Eliya of Nisibis's Kitāb al-turjumān fī taʿlīm luġat al-suryān https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1754030/ Wed, 06 Oct 2021 23:56:15 -0400 Eliya of Nisibis (975–1046), Patriarch of the Church of the East, has earned a noteworthy position among both Syriac and Arabic writers for his works in grammar, lexicography, historiography and theology. His Kitāb al-turjumān, a topically classified (i.e. non-alphabetic) Syriac-Arabic glossary, serves as an important monument to both Syriac and…[Read more]

]]> 0 152887e3915e750b1d45e1e209b6faf9 Adam Bremer-McCollum deposited Greek Literature in the Christian East: Translations into Syriac, Georgian, and Armenian https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1754029/ Wed, 06 Oct 2021 23:53:29 -0400 Intellectual History of the Islamicate World 3 (2015) 15–65

]]> 0 7c6a43711119fb58fe1671db1010900f Adam Bremer-McCollum deposited A New Gǝʿǝz Text on Adam and the Judgement of the Angels (Gundä Gunde 177) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1754028/ Wed, 06 Oct 2021 23:48:33 -0400 Published in Adam Carter McCollum (ed.), Studies in Ethiopian Languages, Literature, and History. Festschrift for Getatchew Haile. Presented by his Friends and Colleagues (Äthiopistische Forschungen 83; Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2017). 431-446.

]]> 0 2dfc8a953b193202315213a75a112ec7 Adam Bremer-McCollum deposited Notes and Colophons of Scribes and Readers in Georgian Biblical Manuscripts from Saint Catherine's Monastery (Sinai) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1754027/ Wed, 06 Oct 2021 23:43:55 -0400 2018, In Liv Ingeborg Lied and Marilena Maniaci, eds.Bible as Notepad: Tracing Annotations and Annotation Practices in Late Antique and Medieval Biblical Manuscripts. Manuscripta Biblica 3. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2018. Pp 111-124

]]> 0 ea933902f97cc8d7f39ca10c8b0d3181 Adam Bremer-McCollum deposited The Martyrdom of Theonilla in Syriac https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1754020/ Wed, 06 Oct 2021 21:45:48 -0400 Cet article présente une édition et une traduction anglaise, pourvue de quelques annotations, du Martyre de Ste Théonille en syriaque, fondée sur le ms. Vat. Syr. 161, l’unique témoin, à notre connaissance, de ce récit. Le texte syriaque apparaît notablement plus long que les notices grecques ou latines consacrées a cette martyre de la persécutio…[Read more]

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