https://scrollandstone.org/ Three thousand years of a tribe, told with nerve - new pieces as they are published. en-gb Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:54:10 GMT https://scrollandstone.org/article-hebrew.html article-hebrew Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT No language ever lost every native speaker and won them all back. Except Hebrew - which never once fell silent in prayer and study. Here's how. https://scrollandstone.org/object-merneptah-stele.html object-merneptah-stele Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT In 1208 BCE, an Egyptian pharaoh carved a boast of Israel's destruction - and accidentally wrote the name Israel into history for the first time. https://scrollandstone.org/object-ketef-hinnom.html object-ketef-hinnom Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Two silver scrolls found in a Jerusalem burial cave carry the Priestly Blessing - the oldest surviving biblical text, four centuries older than the Dead Sea Scrolls, and still spoken every Friday night. https://scrollandstone.org/object-sarajevo-haggadah.html object-sarajevo-haggadah Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Sarajevo Haggadah was illuminated in Barcelona around 1350, expelled from Spain in 1492, and saved twice by Muslim custodians who knew a sacred book when they held one. https://scrollandstone.org/object-aleppo-codex.html object-aleppo-codex Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Aleppo Codex is the most authoritative manuscript of the Hebrew Bible ever produced. Every vowel point placed with care, every cantillation mark exact. And a third of it is missing. https://scrollandstone.org/portrait-kaifeng.html portrait-kaifeng Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT A Jewish community in Song-dynasty China kept Torah, observed Pesach, and sat the imperial examinations. The same story, in an utterly different key. https://scrollandstone.org/article-jerusalem-protagonist.html article-jerusalem-protagonist Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Jerusalem is not only the setting of Jewish history. It is one of the actors: chosen, lost, remembered, rebuilt and never removed from the map of longing. https://scrollandstone.org/article-shabbat-table.html article-shabbat-table Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Candles, wine, bread and song make the Shabbat table the smallest sanctuary the tribe owns. https://scrollandstone.org/object-geniza-shopping-list.html object-geniza-shopping-list Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Someone's grocery list from medieval Cairo survived 900 years because of a scruple about paper. That scruple preserved an entire civilisation. https://scrollandstone.org/learning-cairo-geniza.html learning-cairo-geniza Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT A sealed storeroom in a Cairo synagogue held 400,000 fragments of medieval Jewish life. What the dry Egyptian air preserved rewrote history. https://scrollandstone.org/article-babylonia-the-exile-that-became.html article-babylonia-the-exile-that-became Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nebuchadnezzar deported Judah to Babylon in 586 BCE meaning to dissolve it. Instead the exiles built academies, compiled the Talmud, and stayed for a thousand years. https://scrollandstone.org/article-counting-the-days-to-sinai.html article-counting-the-days-to-sinai Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Omer count - forty-nine days from Pesach to Shavuot - is the oldest ritual calendar in Jewish practice, and it is still running.