Journal
A living archive of the project’s thinking.
Essays, research notes, manuscript spotlights, and glimpses into the workshops, conferences, seminars, and encounters of Shaping Holiness — exploring remarkable objects, pursuing new questions, and following the conversations that continue beyond them.
How does writing become holy? Over three days in Berlin, a deceptively simple question unfolded into a conversation that reached far beyond the manuscript page.
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What might an Egyptian tomb, a medieval Gospel book, a synagogue wall, a Vietnamese religious print and Chinese-Arabic calligraphy have to say to one another? Quite a lot, as it turned out.
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A visit to the conservation studios of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin opens a window onto the material afterlife of holy writings.
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