Textual Cultures, Material Cultures

                    The houses of Yibna surrounding the village mosque during the British Mandate (left); what's left in 20...

Little Richard and his band in  Mister Rock 'n' Roll (1957) Scene One . September 13, 1955. J&M Music Shop, 838-840 ...

Photo via Library of Congress It was about the first of September, 1867, in Constantinople. A group of eight Ameri...

This is a review of the initial episodes of the PBS series Civilizations (2018). My review of the complete series is available at Hyperall...

Abraham Shalom Yahuda as a young man. One of the many effects that the Dead Sea Scrolls had was to lead some scholars to call for a r...

“Gutenberg Gates”: Entry to the Museum of the Bible with 40-foot bronze reproduction of the printing plates of Genesis ...

Israel, Judea . . . and Palestine Marcus Jastrow's Dictionary of the Talmud, part 13 (1900) There appears to ...