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Read more at: Q&A Wednesday: Drew Longacre and the Genizah Psalms

Q&A Wednesday: Drew Longacre and the Genizah Psalms

Drew, you visited Cambridge this summer to look at Genizah Psalms fragments – tell us about your project.

I came to examine a dissertation here, and then stayed for an extra week to work on Psalms manuscripts for a critical edition of the Hebrew text of the Psalms for the HBCE (Hebrew Bible: a Critical Edition) series. Brent Strawn and I have funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a three-year project to produce the printed edition, and it will be accompanied by a digital edition too.

Which manuscripts will you include?


Read more at: Throwback Thursday: Section markings in Bible scrolls

Throwback Thursday: Section markings in Bible scrolls

Our Throwback Thursday this week is taken from issue 32 of the printed edition of Genizah Fragments, published in October 1996, by Jack R. Lundbom, while he was a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall: