Textual Cultures, Material Cultures

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 ...

A group of ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) Jews and former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee  pray at Joseph's Tomb, Nablus, May 22, ...