In 2007, I posted current news stories about placing bibles in the foundations of homes which I compared to ancient Middle Eastern founda...

My first essay about iconic texts was prompted by Judge Roy Moore's installation of a monumental Ten Commandments in the Alabama State C...

  Brad Anderson has highlighted the twenty-first-century academic trend of studying material texts and iconic books. In Reading Religion , h...

  A bible that belonged to Elvis Presley sold at auction for $120 million, according to CBN . It contains "a large number of marked pag...

  Donald Trump's manipulation of the Bible is again making news with his endorsement of " The God Bless the USA Bible ." He cl...

  The BBC reported today that a protestor in Stockholm today publicly burned a Qur'an to protest Sweden's effort to join NATO. The ...

  Andrew Wilson advocates the art of bookbinding to teaching religious studies: Sacred texts are continually being created and recreated, un...

  Danika Ellis (" Books and Reading Are Two Different Hobbies ," BookRiot , Jan 17, 2022) provides an insightful and rare descript...

     Kate Dwyer in the New York Times (Jan 15, 2022) identfies a popular picture of a book-stuffed private library as depicting the library...

    The Smithsonian reports that a metal detector turned up a tiny gold pendant in the shape of an open book in a field near York, England....