Saint Plato, the palimpsest, and the piyyutim.

The Lailashi codex.

A new exhibit at the British Museum.

The hoax of “Jesus’ wife.”

One in France, the other in Kansas.

Loyal as Moses?

In the international gothic style.

Via Cairo, Aleppo, and Oxford.

A Palestinian thief or an “inside job.”

The Abravanel Bible.

Including “the commandments of Judas Iscariot” and a bad translation into Hebrew.

The birth of Jewish studies.

More than caftans and camels and dancing violinists.

An exquisite 14th-century illuminated manuscript, one of few artifacts to have survived the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492, is in danger. In. . .