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Dr. Ginsburg’s Reticence – Liverpool Daily Post – 16 August 1883
On Thursday, 16 August 1883, a reporter from the Liverpool Daily Post expressed, on behalf of the believers in the authenticity of the leather strips, that if the manuscript were a forgery, Dr. Ginsburg would have already declared them as such. The fact that he had...
Monsieur Clermont-Ganneau’s Account of His Arrival in London – 15 August 1883
On Wednesday, 15 August 1883, Monsieur Charles Clermont-Ganneau arrived in London and made his way to the British Museum. What follows is Clermont-Ganneau’s account of the day of his arrival.[1] “I reached London on Wednesday last, instructed by the Minister of Public...
Gladstone’s Visit Reported and Guthe’s Work Goes to Print – 14 August 1883
On 14 August 1883, The Standard reported on Prime Minister Gladstone’s visit to the British Museum the previous day, and in Leipzig, Hermann Guthe penned the Foreword to the assessment of Shapira’s manuscript strips that he and Eduard Meyer had conducted...
The Prime Minister’s Visit and an Official Rejection by Two Eminent Scholars – 13 August 1883
As the second week of Ginsburg’s analysis came to an end, and with public interest on the rise, two of the leather strips were placed on display in a poorly-lit glass case in the King’s Library of the British Museum. Each day, between the hours of ten and four, under...
The Shapira MS. of Deuteronomy – Saturday, 11 August 1883
On Saturday, 11 August 1883, Christian Ginsburg published his first of three installments in The Athenæum. The first publication gave readers the Hebrew text and an English translation of the Ten Words as presented in the manuscript. Additionally, Ginsburg...
The New Manuscript of Deuteronomy – Friday, 10 August 1883
On Friday, 10 August 1883, The Jewish Chronicle featured two articles, both bearing the same title, “The New Manuscript of Deuteronomy.”[1] The New Manuscript of Deuteronomy p. 9 The remarkable “find” of Mr. Shapira, described in another column, comes as a...