by Ross Nichols | Oct 25, 2025
Is the Oldest Hebrew Bible Text Still Missing — or Have We Already Seen It? In 1883, the Jerusalem antiquities dealer Moses Wilhelm Shapira presented a set of blackened leather strips written in ancient Hebrew script. He claimed they had been discovered around 1865 in...
by Ross Nichols | Aug 31, 2025
As August of 1883 came to a close, Hermann Guthe’s assessment of the Shapira MSS was published without notice or fanfare in Leipzig. Guthe concluded his publication with the following comments: “The examination of the text has led to the certain...
by Ross Nichols | Aug 28, 2025
The following account is an excerpt from The Moses Scroll (pages 82-85). On the heels of the publication of Ginsburg’s forgery declaration, the pace of attacks from all quarters of the Academic world increased. News out of Germany hit the papers on 28 August...
by Ross Nichols | Aug 27, 2025
On Monday, 27 August 1883, the long-awaited and much-anticipated conclusions of Dr. Christian Ginsburg appeared in the pages of The Times. That which appeared was a copy of the report that Ginsburg had given Bond on Wednesday, 22 August, the day after...
by Ross Nichols | Aug 25, 2025
On 25 August 1883, The Athenæum published the third and final installment of Dr. Ginsburg’s transcription and translation of the manuscript strips. The article began, “This concludes the original and the translation of the MS. as far as it was necessary for...
