Johannes Gutenberg took the idea of printing by moveable type and turned it into a publishing system. In doing so he changed the world. But he did not live to see the extent of the revolution he had brought about.
If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.” So proclaimed the Roman general, statesman, and censor Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus, in 131 B.C.
Today, I led a field trip of a small group of Bar-Ilan students to Ashkelon and Tell es-Safi/Gath, as part of a course on the Philistines and Sea Peoples.