The Bibles of Sepharad

The Crossed Lives of the Text and Its Readers 

Don´t miss the exhibition at the National Library about the Hebrew manuscripts produced in the Iberian Peninsula during medieval times , they are  so poignand!

After being read by Jews and converts, and later collected by various owners and institutions, many of these manuscripts are travelling for the first time from their place of origin to show a piece of Spanish cultural history in this exhibition.

During the middle ages, the Hebrew Bible was the backbone of Jewish cultural and religious life in the Iberian Peninsula. This exhibition explores the history of these volumes, their relationship with readers and collectors and the way they were read and interpreted by Iberian Jews of the epoch.

The exhibition is divided into eight sections: 'The Bible', 'Learning', 'Liturgy', 'Biblical Exegesis', 'Polemics', 'Reason and Revelation', 'Reading Spaces and Types of Reading' and 'Collecting in Spain.' The Hebrew language, interpretations of the sacred text and the Bible's influence on architecture are just some of the subjects covered in this show.