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EPISODE · May 24, 2012 · 52 MIN

Columba Stewart and Getatchew Haile — Preserving Words and Worlds (May 6, 2010)

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Saint John's University and Abbey in rural Minnesota houses a monastic library that rescues writings from across the centuries and across the world. There are worlds in this place on palm leaf and papyrus, in microfilm and pixels. And the relevance of the past to the present is itself revealed in a new light. See more at www.onbeing.org/program/preserving-words-and-worlds/145

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