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Language Scattered, Treasures Revealed: Tibet’s First Millennium Manuscripts
DANIEL A. HIRSHBERG | Among its many accomplishments, the Pugyal empire of Tibet (ca. 7th–9th century C.E.) rivaled the great Tang...
Aug 3, 2018


Seeing the Forest but Missing the Trees
NILS H. KORSVOLL | Philology and text-critical studies traditionally see manuscripts as repositories of traces and clues to discovering...
Jul 20, 2018


The Staffordshire Hoard and the Distance of the Past
SAMUEL COLLINS | Early medieval archaeology rarely makes news...
Jul 20, 2018


(Still) Rethinking the Origins of the Nag Hammadi Codices
NICOLA DENZEY LEWIS | The find story of the Nag Hammadi codices is well known to anyone who works in the field of Gnosticism...
Jul 6, 2018


Like a Bride: The Qur’an and Arabic Prose
KEVIN BLANKINSHIP | As with most religions, disputing the nature of Islam is a practice nearly as old as Islam itself...
Jul 6, 2018


“Property of a gentleman”: The market of ancient manuscripts and the problem of provenance
ROBERTA MAZZA | I am a papyrologist...
Jul 6, 2018


Simonides’ New Testament Papyri: Their Production and Purported Provenance
TOMMY WASSERMAN | In 2014, when the so-called Gospel of Jesus Wife had been exposed as a forgery...
Jul 6, 2018


Gleanings from the Cave of Wonders? Fragments, Forgeries, and “Biblicism” in the Dead Sea Scrolls
KIPP DAVIS | Any child of the 1980s or ‘90s or self respecting Disney animated film buff will recognize the “Cave of Wonders”...
Jun 22, 2018


Batshit Stories: New Tales of Discovering Ancient Texts
EVA MROCZEK | In his short story Forevermore, Israeli writer S.Y. Agnon relates the story of a scholar...
Jun 22, 2018


Meister Eckhart: Dangerous Mystic
JOEL F. HARRINGTON | After nearly seven centuries of relative obscurity, the fourteenth-century mystic Meister Eckhart has emerged...
Jun 6, 2018


Trump and the Specter of Christian Withdrawal
JONATHAN TRAN | The Trump presidency provides a kind of Rorschach test for American Christians, raising the question...
Jun 6, 2018


A State of Their Own: Jewish Internationalism and Human Rights
GIL RUBIN | In a 1938 speech in Prague, Vladimir Ze’ev Jabotinsky, founder and leader of the right-wing Zionist revisionist movement...
Jun 6, 2018
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