Straight from the headlines: ISIS destroys the temple of Bal at Palmyra. Looters steal friezes from Greco-Roman sites in Ukraine under the cover of conflict. A …
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Episode 67: How Jews Translate the Bible and Why
Any student of a foreign language knows that the process of translating a text can be laden with unexpected choices about words, sentence structure, and phrases …
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Episode 61: The Fatimids
Around the first millennium of the Christian era, a small group of Ismaili Shi’i Muslims established a dynasty that rapidly conquered North Africa from the …