OKAY, I LIED. BLogging has not been "very light." But I'm in a hurry tonight: I need to get across town to hear a lecture on the sociology of scribal practices in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Go to the Geniza Online Database to see images of the Damascus Document ("Zadokite Fragments") and a Ben Sira fragment. I got to see them both in person today, along with the other CD manuscript and the Nash Papyrus. Made me feel like I should take my shoes off or something. Also some cool medieval things such as a letter in Maimonides's own handwriting. This online database has images of 500 manuscripts from the Cambridge Geniza collection. Pretty good: only 139,500 to go.

[There was a typo in the last number, which I have corrected.]