Ed Simon

Ed Simon is Public Humanities Special Faculty in the English Department at Carnegie Mellon University, the editor of the Pittsburgh Review of Books, staff writer at LitHub, and the author of several books, including Devil’s Contract: The History of the Faustian Bargain, named a “Best Book of 2024” by The New Yorker.

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Religion Dispatches

Let There Be Light: Handwritten Draft of King James Bible Reveals Secrets of Its Creation

The King James Bible may well be the greatest work of literature ever written by committee—and now we know a bit more about the collaboration that produced it. Jeffrey Allen Miller, an English…

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October 19, 2015

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Will This Relic Change Our Whole View of Early American History?

It’s a news story that contains the ingredients of a paperback thriller, the sort of thing that reminds readers what they find so evocative about archeology. Researchers sifting through the ground at…

Ed Simon

August 7, 2015

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Who Are the Waldensians and Why Did the Pope Ask for Their Forgiveness?

Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones/Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold… who kept thy truth so pure of old. – John Milton on the 1655 slaughter of 1,700 Waldensians at the hands…

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July 9, 2015

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