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JON D. LEVENSON | Professor Sommer brings the whole range of Jewish learning to bear...

ALBA FEDELI | In July 2015, the BBC released the news about the “‘Oldest’ Koran fragments found in Birmingham University”...

DANIEL A. HIRSHBERG | Among its many accomplishments, the Pugyal empire of Tibet (ca. 7th–9th century C.E.) rivaled the great Tang...

NILS H. KORSVOLL | Philology and text-critical studies traditionally see manuscripts as repositories of traces and clues to discovering...

SAMUEL COLLINS | Early medieval archaeology rarely makes news...

NICOLA DENZEY LEWIS | The find story of the Nag Hammadi codices is well known to anyone who works in the field of Gnosticism...

ROBERTA MAZZA | I am a papyrologist...

TOMMY WASSERMAN | In 2014, when the so-called Gospel of Jesus Wife had been exposed as a forgery...

KIPP DAVIS | Any child of the 1980s or ‘90s or self respecting Disney animated film buff will recognize the “Cave of Wonders”...

EVA MROCZEK | In his short story Forevermore, Israeli writer S.Y. Agnon relates the story of a scholar...

PAUL MENDES-FLOHR | It is said that the Archbishop of Canterbury once approached the Chief Rabbi of Great Britain...

BENJAMIN D. SOMMER | My reading of the Torah’s account of what happened at Mount Sinai in Exodus 19-20 and 24 forms the generative core...