God’s Word Saves WWI Soldier
North-east France, 1917. German infantryman Kurt Geiler was sleeping as he usually did with his bible underneath his head when the bomb hit. Though a 4cm piece of shrapnel beat up the bible Geiler was...
View ArticleBad Dog! A 17th Century Canine Book Review
The illustration above appears in the 1697 book, Critique historique, politique, morale, economique et comique sur les lotteries by Gregorio Leti. Leti was a vocal critic of the Catholic Church and of...
View ArticleAll Along the Watch Tower: The First Jehova’s Witnesses
Portraits of Charles Taze Russell (1852-1916), founder of the Society They first called themselves the Zion's Watch Tower Tract Society and they were the earliest incarnation of what are now known...
View ArticleAll Along the Watch Tower: The First Jehova’s Witnesses
Portraits of Charles Taze Russell (1852-1916), founder of the Society They first called themselves the Zion's Watch Tower Tract Society and they were the earliest incarnation of what are now known...
View ArticleGod’s Word Visualized
What happens when the Bible gets in the hands of the data gods? It comes to life in a series of astonishing infographics that were recently shared by The Guardian. From playing with word counts to...
View ArticleHere’s one “out of the closet” book that doesn’t seem to bother the Religious...
Seems not a week goes by without someone, somewhere on this beautiful planet, objecting to a book due to its gay or non-traditional marriage content. Some have even gotten in a huff over a book about...
View ArticleKafka’s notebook, the first written evidence of Yiddish and more as Israel’s...
13th-century German prayer book containing the earliest evidence of the Yiddish language. The goal is daunting: Undertake “a worldwide initiative to digitize every Hebrew manuscript in existence.” To...
View ArticleOf Interest: Morrissey, The Talmud, The Occupy Movement “Explained” and The...
“The solution to all predicaments is the goodness of privacy in a warm room with books” – Morrissey He is near the top of most lists ranking the world’s best songwriters and his tenure with The Smiths...
View ArticleGerman university unveils what may be the world’s oldest Qur’an
With about 95% certainty the team at the Coranica Project, part of the University of Tübingen, have placed a manuscript of the Qu’ran to between 649-675 AD. Using carbon-14 dating on select samples...
View ArticleGod’s Word Saves WWI Soldier
North-east France, 1917. German infantryman Kurt Geiler was sleeping as he usually did with his bible underneath his head when the bomb hit. Though a 4cm piece of shrapnel beat up the bible Geiler was...
View ArticleBad Dog! A 17th Century Canine Book Review
The illustration above appears in the 1697 book, Critique historique, politique, morale, economique et comique sur les lotteries by Gregorio Leti. Leti was a vocal critic of the Catholic Church and of...
View ArticleAll Along the Watch Tower: The First Jehova’s Witnesses
Portraits of Charles Taze Russell (1852-1916), founder of the Society They first called themselves the Zion's Watch Tower Tract Society and they were the earliest incarnation of what are now known...
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