by Ross Nichols | Feb 9, 2022
In 1933, the British Museum purchased one of the world’s most precious Biblical manuscripts from the Russians. It is known as the Codex Sinaiticus. They reportedly paid £100,000; a price equal to approximately £7.3 million in 2022. I, of course, knew the basic story...
by Ross Nichols | Feb 3, 2022
Yet another paper has appeared in the ongoing debate over the authenticity of Shapira’s [in]famous leather manuscript strips. The latest, posted on Academia, relates a story of a manuscript seen in the shop of Moses Shapira in the year 1870. The author writes that in...
by Ross Nichols | Jan 27, 2022
On 12 January 2022, Brill published a new contribution to Shapira studies in Dead Sea Discoveries (2022) 1-29. The printed version will soon follow the online version under the same title, “Shapira’s Deuteronomy, Its Decalogue, and Dead Sea Scrolls...
by Ross Nichols | Jan 7, 2022
On 6 January 2022, Idan Dershowitz posted a four-part thread on his Twitter account.[1] This is what he posted. I just listened to an excellent talk by Michael Langlois,[2] in which he dispels the myth that the Dead Sea Scrolls were accepted by most early...
by Ross Nichols | Sep 29, 2021
One of the great puzzles for most researchers of the Shapira Affair is why he spent the final months of his life in the Netherlands. The basic story, oft repeated, is that after the official rejection of his manuscript strips by Christian Ginsburg, the dejected...
