Scribes

Transmission

The Murashu Scribes

In the late spring of 1893, on the mound of ancient Nippur in Iraq, a workman clearing collapsed rubble from a room found clay tablets lying on the floor where they had…

Scripture

The Scrolls of Augsburg

Inside the synagogue on Halderstrasse in Augsburg, in the small hours of 10 November 1938, the caretaker was made to unlock his own front door. Twenty or thirty men pushed past him,…