Textual Cultures, Material Cultures

National Library of Israel promotional video for the “Treasures of the Afghan Genizah” In Live Science on Monday, Owen Jaru...

 Ruins of the shrine of Nebi Yunus (“the prophet Jonah”) in Mosul, January 2017 ( VOA )                                        ...

Embed from Getty Images Chuck Berry was never my favorite musician growing up. As I’ve written before, the first musical a...

  Modern town of Palmyra (Tadmur), Syria, c. 2006 photo by Soman via Wikimedia Commons About 3 years ...

Chanan Tigay, The Lost Book of Moses: The Hunt for the World’s Oldest Bible (New York: Ecco/HarperCollins, 2016) The...

This month, Smithsonian magazine has a long article by Jo Marchant on an important Mycenaean tomb at Pylos, dubbed...