by Ross Nichols | Aug 8, 2025
On the afternoon of Tuesday, 7 August 1883, Moses Shapira went to meet Dr. Ginsburg, but after some time of waiting and Ginsburg not showing up, Shapira returned to the Cannon Street Hotel. The next day, from the hotel, Shapira wrote a note to Dr....
by Ross Nichols | Aug 7, 2025
Since the original publication of this blog post, I have expanded my research into the provenance of the Shapira fragments with a more comprehensive paper. This work compares six key nineteenth-century accounts that document the origin and history of these enigmatic...
by Ross Nichols | Aug 6, 2025
Having read the newspaper reports in The Times and The Jewish Chronicle over the previous weekend from his room in the Cannon Street Hotel, Shapira knew that he had to provide his side of the Moabitica scandal since it was obvious that this unfortunate incident had...
by Ross Nichols | Aug 4, 2025
On Saturday, 4 August 1883, a brief update on the examination of the leather pieces appeared in The Athenæum in the Literary Gossip column.[1] It read: “The examination of the pieces of leather which Mr. Shapira has brought to London is proceeding, but...
by Ross Nichols | Aug 3, 2025
After the meeting of Thursday, 26 July 1883 at the office of the Palestine Exploration Fund, Dr. Ginsburg was placed in charge of the manuscript strips brought to England by Moses W. Shapira and tasked to examine them at the British Museum. The following Friday, 3...
