by Ross Nichols | Mar 28, 2021
Books are classified as New Releases for the first thirty days, and I am very pleased with the reception of The Moses Scroll during the first month since it was published on Amazon. When I published the book, I listed it in the following categories: (1) Religion –...
by Ross Nichols | Mar 17, 2021
Some of the more unique features of the manuscript that Shapira presented to the world in 1883 are contained in its version of the Ten Commandments. From the very beginning of the Shapira saga, these unique features created a sense of interest as well as objections....
by Ross Nichols | Mar 15, 2021
The popular blog of well-known epigrapher, Professor Christopher Rollston has an ongoing academic discussion on the question of the authenticity of Shapira’s manuscript. This is the direct result of Professor Rollston’s blog post titled, “Déjà vu all over Again: The...
by Ross Nichols | Mar 12, 2021
It is a small world when it comes to active Shapira researchers and we all know each other. In an exchange dated 27 May 2020, one Shapira researcher informed me that, “there’s a very smart young scholar working on this now who has made some really interesting...
by Ross Nichols | Mar 8, 2021
As we neared the completion of The Moses Scroll, I began to plan for the public release of the book. As I put it in my preface, “following Tabor’s advice, on 14 January 2021 I made the official announcement about the book. The date seemed appropriate to us since the...
