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Marble monument depicting a figure dressed in coat and mantle with shield with American flag in relief on breast, with a naked boy under her right arm holding a lamp, and an eagle.

Guide

Intellectual and Religious Thought

1750–1880

Photograph of wasp hive inside cavity of cow's skull.

Guide

Sayings, Riddles, Fables, and Allegories in the Biblical World

Biblical Period

Ivory panel of lion with claws and teeth gripping bull in partial rectangular frame.

Guide

Living a Good Life according to Biblical Wisdom Literature

Biblical Period

Papyrus page of Egyptian hieratic writing in four columns.

Guide

Practical Wisdom from the Book of Proverbs

Biblical Period

Fragmentary papyrus page of Aramaic writing.

Guide

The Words of Ahiqar

Biblical Period

Facing-page Hebrew manuscript with charts with Hebrew letters on left side, and geometric drawings on right side.

Guide

Early Modern Spiritual Ideologies

1500–1750

Portrait painting of man in wide collar.

Source

Portrait of Baruch Spinoza

ca. 1665

Source

Tractatus de intellectus emendatione (Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect)

Baruch Spinoza

ca. 1662

Source

Lev tov (A Good Heart): Ten Commandments for the Married Woman

Isaac ben Eliyakim of Posen

ca. 1620

Source

Tiferet baḥurim (Beauty of Young Men)

Pinḥas Barukh Monselice

Second Half of the 17th Century

Source

Shevet musar (Rod of Correction): Instructions for a Wife

Elijah ha-Kohen ha-Itmari

1712

Source

Der brantshpigl (The Burning Mirror)

Moses Yerushalmi

1596