by Ross Nichols | Oct 9, 2022
On 15 January 2023, Dr. David Gurevich, Chair of the Conference, Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa, published the program for the conference. Click here to view it. Read this blog post to learn more about my involvement in this academic conference....
by Ross Nichols | Jul 13, 2022
In The Moses Scroll, I presented evidence that Moses Wilhelm Shapira was involved in early efforts to decipher the Siloam Inscription.[1] His daughter reported his work in copying and producing a “tracing” of the inscription, but as this article will show,...
by Ross Nichols | May 6, 2022
In the summer of 1883, Moses Wilhelm Shapira arrived in Europe with sixteen blackened leather strips. They purportedly contained a version of Moses’ final words to the children of Israel, written in Paleo-Hebrew script. Shapira went first to Berlin, then to Leipzig,...
by Ross Nichols | Apr 1, 2022
Abstract: The meaning, cause, and remedy of the biblical צרעת have been the source of much debate. Traditional translations have rendered the word as leprosy, usually with the somewhat confusing caveat that despite the retention of leprosy, it does not mean...
by Ross Nichols | Mar 30, 2022
The story of Moses Wilhelm Shapira contains plots and subplots. The dramatis personae include heroes and villains, a list of who’s who in nineteenth-century biblical scholarship, adventurers, and explorers. These are presented against the backdrop of some of...
