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Q&A Wednesday: Deconstructing Genizah mythology, with Rebecca Jefferson
Q&A Wednesday: Estara Arrant and the informal Bibles of Fustat
Q&A Wednesday: Firkovich’s Bible manuscripts, with Vince Beiler
Q&A Wednesday: Flax, tax and trade hacks, with Lorenzo Bondioli
Q&A Wednesday: From monk to Jew in 1102 – Obadiah the proselyte, with Gary Rendsburg
Q&A Wednesday: Gelatinisation of early parchment fragments in the T-S New Series, with Deborah Farndell
Q&A Wednesday: Genizah Studies in Japan, with Hideharu Shimada and Amir Ashur
Q&A Wednesday: Hebrew maqama poetry meets pop culture, with Michael Rand
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Q&A Wednesday: José Martínez Delgado and the letters of al-Andalus
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Q&A Wednesday: Recovering the lost Yerushalmi, with Elyashiv Cherlow
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Q&A Wednesday: Talmudic therapy with a Mesopotamian pedigree? The Gittin Book of Remedies with Jason Sion Mokhtarian
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