BeInf News

Ted Erho delivers a lecture at Warsaw University at the conference 75 Years of Ethiopian Studies in Warsaw. He will present on Ethiopic fragments of...

The volume Jonah in the Ethiopic Biblical Tradition by Jeremy Brown was recently published in the new series Ethiopic Bible and Related Literature at...

Grant from the Institut français d’archéologie orientale (IFAO)

1 May 2026 

The Institut français d’archéologie orientale (IFAO) has awarded a grant...

Anaïs Wion, a historian of Medieval Ethiopia, joins BeInf as a short-term research fellow for the week of 4-8 May 2026.

Carolin Schäfer, a specialist of Ethiopian and Eritrean art who recently defended her PhD on “Sacred Images from Ethiopia. Intercultural Workshops and...

Aaron Butts delivers lecture at Late Antique Seminar in Warsaw University on "The Connected Histories of Ethiopic and Syriac Christians".

Here the...

BeInf PI Aaron Butts appears in the podcast “Byzantium & Friends” in an episode on “Ezana of Aksum: The First Christian African King.”

The podcast is...

Sophia Dege-Müller is participating at the  "TANA-Treffen 2025 Hamburg",  of the Deutsche Archäologische Institut. On Decmber 3 she will present the...

BeInf PI Aaron Butts delivers a lecture on “Ezānā of Aksum: The First Christian African King” for the Department of Near & Middle Eastern...

Sophia Dege-Müller is participating at the workshop "Cosmology and Conception of Nature in the Middle Ages",  hosted on 18 November at the University...

Dr Lasse Løvlund Toft, a post-doc at the University of Oslo, joins BeInf as a short-term research fellow for the week of 3-7 November 2025.

BeInf team member Sophia Dege-Müller appears as an expert on NDR's radio program "vertikal horizontal. Glaubens- und Gewissensfragen" on Sunday...

11 September 2025

BeInf team member Ted Erho presents “Escaping Death: The Tale of the Egyptian Brothers Jannes and Jambres” at the conference...

Dr Maria Bulakh, associate professor at HSE University, joins BeInf as a short-term research fellow for the week of 5-9 May 2025.

Aaron Butts will deliver the opening keynote lecture at the international conference “Real and Imagined Boundaries in Late Antiquity” at the...

Ted Erho will speak at the Text and Transmission Joint Research Seminar (TeTra), hosted at the University of Vienna, on Wednesday 15 January, at 10...

The German-Israeli Foundation (GIF) has awarded 279.460 € to Aaron Butts and Boaz Zissu (of Bar Ilan University) for the project “Understanding the...

Aaron Butts will give a lecture entitled “Late Antique Ethiopic Literature: Challenges and Prospectives” at the workshop Literary Beginnings in Late...

24 November 2024

BeInf team member Ted Erho delivers two lectures at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) in San Diego over...