Books of Spanish Leather
Today on Tablet
November 23, 2011
By coincidence (or at least by fortuitous alignment of very real trends), for the first time ever three medieval Hebrew Bibles are on display at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Today in Tablet Magazine, gallerist Robin Cembalest explains how they differ and what they have in common—with each other as well as with contemporaneous Islamic holy books.
Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.