by Ross Nichols | Feb 21, 2022
I was last in Israel in March of 2020 when the world shut down because of Covid; in fact, I had a difficult time returning to the states at that time. Thankfully, and finally, things seem to be returning to a sense of normalcy, and I am very excited to share some good...
by Ross Nichols | Feb 12, 2022
[A PDF version of this post is available on my Academia page. These “notes as a preface to the M.S. of Deut.” is contained in the dossier, “Papers Relative to M.W. Shapira’s Forged MS. Of Deuteronomy (A.D. 1883 – 1884).” Add. MS. 41294 (London: British Library). In...
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...
