Pentecost 4o
Pentecost (meaning “50” [days]) is an ancient Jewish festival celebrated 7 weeks after Passover. It was one of 3 times in the year that Jewish people in ancient times were required to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Pentecost was a celebration of both the wheat harvest and of the giving of the Torah, which laid…
Babel
Babel, or the Necessity of Violence by RF Kuang debuted at the first spot on The New York Times Best Seller list, and won Blackwell’s Books of the Year for Fiction in 2022 and the 2022 Nebula Award for Best Novel. It is a work of historical fiction that revolves around four translators from different…