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David Z Moster

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Mar 17 2025

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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

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From Online Auction to JTS Special Collections

From Online Auction to JTS Special Collections: How Two Historic Bibles Were Reunited in the JTS Library

Part of our winter learning series, What’s Next? New Ways of Engaging Jewish Sources

Monday, March 17, 2024
1:00–2:00 p.m. ET 
Online

This summer, for his 40th birthday, David Moster purchased a rare set of books from the 1800s. The chain of events that followed led to the JTS Library temporarily welcoming a rare and valuable 13th Century Tanakh manuscript into its collection. In this session, you’ll learn about the fascinating backstory of this manuscript and the thrilling story of its reunification. We’ll explore how the study of manuscripts and the scribes who created them can help you think about your own translation and interpretation of the Tanakh.

About the Series

Mondays, February 3–March 24, 2025*
1:00–2:00 p.m. ET 

JTS is well-known as a hub of innovative scholarship and a center of academic Jewish Studies. Recently, JTS has launched programs in Biblical Hebrew, Pastoral Care, and Teen Learning, offering accessible entryways into the Jewish textual tradition. Explore how JTS is bringing together new modes of learning with classical sources to meet the needs of today’s world. Sessions will give participants a taste of the ideas and teaching that are central to these programs.

There is no session on Presidents’ Day, Monday, February 17.