The crime of not reading

About 600 BC, King Jehoiakim destroyed Jeremiah’s scroll in a fire. Around 250 BC Emperor Qin Shi Huang of China ordered the burning of all philosophy books and history books from states other than Qin. Following the conversion of the Maldives to Islam in 1153, Buddhist manuscripts written by Maldivian monks were burnt or destroyed. The Nazi book burnings were […]