Who Speaks for the Jews: Latin and Hebrew Sources
Pinchas Roth on The Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender In The Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender, Julie Mell aims to uproot several long-held
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Complicating Myths: Moneylending in Iberia
Sarah Ifft Decker on The Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender Jews began to settle in Vic, a mid-size city in northwestern Catalonia, only
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The Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender: A Forum
The Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender: A Forum An Introduction Nina Caputo (University of Florida) Contributors Who Speaks for the Jews? Latin
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Hasidism Forum: A New History
Hasidism: A Forum This forum is dedicated to our friend and colleague Professor Tzippi Kauffman who left this world much too early. She
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Daniel Boyarin’s Judaism: A Forum
Forum Contents “Introduction: Marginalia Forum on Daniel Boyarin’s Judaism,” Annette Yoshiko Reed and Shaul Magid “Was the Word in the Beginning? On the
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Language Scattered, Treasures Revealed: Tibet’s First Millennium Manuscripts
A Most Fortuitous Find at Dunhuang, China (1900 C.E.) Among its many accomplishments, the Pugyal empire of Tibet (ca. 7th–9th century C.E.) rivaled
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Collective Enthusiasm and the Cautious Scholar: The Birmingham Qur’ān
The Case of the Discovery of the “Birmingham Qur’ān” In July 2015, the BBC released the news about the “‘Oldest’ Koran fragments found
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Seeing the Forest but Missing the Trees
Nils H. Korsvoll on the magic of material culture Philology and text-critical studies traditionally see manuscripts as repositories of traces and clues to
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The Staffordshire Hoard and the Distance of the Past
Samuel Collins on a dazzling trove of medieval treasure Early medieval archaeology rarely makes news. Star power rests instead with discoveries from the
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Simonides’ New Testament Papyri: Their Production and Purported Provenance
Tommy Wasserman on the most notorious New Testament forger In 2014, when the so-called Gospel of Jesus Wife had been exposed as a
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