Reformation
The Bay Psalm Book
In the winter of 1639 and 1640, in a wooden house not far from the Charles River at Cambridge in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, a printer named Stephen Daye pulled sheets off…
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Places
The Cairo Geniza and the Taylor-Schechter Collection
For roughly a thousand years a chamber above the women’s gallery of the Ben Ezra Synagogue, in Fustat, the old Egyptian capital that medieval travellers knew as Cairo, acted as a kind…
Scripture
The Nash Papyrus
For nearly half a century it carried a singular distinction: the oldest known manuscript of the Hebrew Bible. Acquired in Egypt in 1902 and presented to Cambridge University Library the following year,…