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Moses Shapira’s Manuscript and an Easter to Remember
“Dort in einem Geldschrank, unter anderen Werthsachen, blieb die Handschrift unberührt liegen bis Ostern 1883.” [There, in a safe, among other valuables, the manuscript remained untouched until Easter 1883.] In the summer of 1878, Moses Wilhelm Shapira came to acquire...
31 August 1883 – Hermann Guthe’s Book
As August of 1883 came to a close, Hermann Guthe's assessment of the Shapira MSS was published without notice or fanfare in Leipzig. Guthe concluded his publication with the following comments: "The examination of the text has led to the certain realization that the...
28 August 1883 – An Academic Attack and Shapira’s Response
The following account is an excerpt from The Moses Scroll (pages 82-85). On the heels of the publication of Ginsburg's forgery declaration, the pace of attacks from all quarters of the Academic world increased. News out of Germany hit the papers on 28 August 1883....
Ginsburg’s Much-Anticipated Conclusions – 27 August 1883
On Monday, 27 August 1883, the long-awaited and much-anticipated conclusions of Dr. Christian Ginsburg appeared in the pages of The Times. That which appeared was a copy of the report that Ginsburg had given Bond on Wednesday, 22 August, the day after...
The Athenæum – The Three Installments by Dr. Ginsburg – 25 August 1883
On 25 August 1883, The Athenæum published the third and final installment of Dr. Ginsburg’s transcription and translation of the manuscript strips. The article began, “This concludes the original and the translation of the MS. as far as it was necessary for...
The Egotism of the Learned World – 23 August 1883
Seemingly hurried to make a public statement following Clermont-Ganneau’s report published in The Times on 21 August, Dr. Ginsburg turned in a report to Mr. Bond on the next day. Like Clermont-Ganneau, Ginsburg also declared that the strips were forged. The...