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Long-hidden annotations in a Henry VIII-era Bible reveal the messy, gradual process of the Protestant Reformation. The handwritten notes were just discovered in a Latin Bible published in 1535 by ...
For a brief moment in 1475, a Hebrew printing press opened up in Regio di Calabria in southern Italy. More than 500 years later, two leaves from a book produced in that ancient shop have found their ...
Early in last month’s sale at Kestenbaum & Company, a New York auction house specializing in rare Hebrew books, when a single leaf of Rashi’s commentary on the Pentateuch came on the block, fevered ...
Over the centuries, perhaps no volume of poetry has claimed the devotion of so many people across the Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and also inspired the creation of artistic ...
Marginal notes in the Latin Bible, copied from the "Great Bible" — the first authorized English-language Bible in England. (Copyright Lambeth Palace Library) Long ...
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