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The Moses Scroll – Go Ahead, Judge a Book by its Cover

The Moses Scroll – Go Ahead, Judge a Book by its Cover

Everyone has heard the adage, "Don't judge a book by its cover," but in the case of The Moses Scroll, I hope that people do just that. Daniel M. Wright applied his immense talents to design the cover as well as the illustrations within the book. We frequently talked...

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Did Shapira’s Manuscript Contain Ten or Eleven Commandments?

Did Shapira’s Manuscript Contain Ten or Eleven Commandments?

Some of the more unique features of the manuscript that Shapira presented to the world in 1883 are contained in its version of the Ten Commandments. From the very beginning of the Shapira saga, these unique features created a sense of interest as well as objections....

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Shapira and the Inscription of Siloam

Shapira and the Inscription of Siloam

The popular blog of well-known epigrapher, Professor Christopher Rollston has an ongoing academic discussion on the question of the authenticity of Shapira’s manuscript. This is the direct result of Professor Rollston’s blog post titled, “Déjà vu all over Again: The...

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A New Call for a Reassessment of Shapira’s Manuscript

A New Call for a Reassessment of Shapira’s Manuscript

It is a small world when it comes to active Shapira researchers and we all know each other. In an exchange dated 27 May 2020, one Shapira researcher informed me that, “there's a very smart young scholar working on this now who has made some really interesting and new...

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