Rabbi Akiva

Scripture

The Codex Assemani 66 and the Halakhic Midrashim

The oldest large page of rabbinic literature in Europe is not on a Jewish bookshelf. It sits in the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, under the catalogue number Vat. ebr. 66, in a plain…

Transmission

The Bar Kokhba Letters and the Cave of Letters

Among the manuscript discoveries of the twentieth century, the small archive of papyri known as the Bar Kokhba Letters occupies a place of quite singular importance for the modern study of Jewish…