by Ross Nichols | Mar 8, 2022
Travel writer, explorer, and journalist John Hillaby broke the news of an exciting story for The New York Times readers with an article submitted from London on 12 August 1956. The story was a revival of “the case of a man who committed suicide seventy years...
by Ross Nichols | Mar 2, 2022
In July of 1885, the manuscript strips that Shapira presented to scholars in Europe were sold by Sotheby, Wilkinson, and Hodge, the famous auctioneers of the Strand, London. Listed as Lot 302, the description said, “The Schapira Manuscripts. Deuteronomy in Hebrew. 7...
by Ross Nichols | Feb 23, 2022
Today marks the first anniversary since the publication of The Moses Scroll, so I could not let the day pass without pausing to reflect on the unexpected success of my first book. As a first-time author and a self-published one at that, I could not be more...
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...