Tunisia’s Ex-President Should Worry about His Own Country’s Problems
He was on a boat attempting to run the blockade of Gaza.
July 1, 2015
Using “Ghost Letters” to Decipher the Wisdom of Ben Sira
In which "strange ghosts of backward letters" turn out to be Hebrew.
The book of Ben Sira (also known as Ecclesiasticus) is a collection of proverbs and poems thought to have originally been written in Hebrew in the 2nd century BCE. Although excluded from the Jewish canon, it is included in many Christian Bibles; nevertheless, it is occasionally cited with reverence in ancient and medieval rabbinic works. The oldest surviving manuscripts of the book are in Greek and Syriac; the oldest one in Hebrew, discovered in 1896, was written in the late-11th century CE and contains mysterious faded letters, which a scholar now believes he has deciphered:
July 1, 2015
For Palestinians, Terrorism, Not Competence, Is the Path to Political Popularity
Why Abbas is going after Salam Fayyad.
The Weakest Western Link in the Nuclear Talks with Iran
Germany puts business over security and human rights.
Using “Ghost Letters” to Decipher the Wisdom of Ben Sira
In which "strange ghosts of backward letters" turn out to be Hebrew.
How Great Sacred Art Differs from Great Sacred Subject Matter
The distance between piety and genius.