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Sephardic Portugal and the Hebrew Bible
There is a paradox at the centre of the Portuguese story, and it is a paradox about books rather than about people. For roughly four centuries, from the middle of the twelfth…
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The Faro Pentateuch of 1487
On the last day of June 1487, in a rented room in the Jewish quarter of Faro on the southern coast of Portugal, a printer named Don Samuel Gacon finished the first…