Author’s Blog
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...
The Words of the Scroll – Wednesday, 8 August 1883
On the afternoon of Tuesday, 7 August 1883, Moses Shapira went to meet Dr. Ginsburg, but after some time of waiting and Ginsburg not showing up, Shapira returned to the Cannon Street Hotel. The next day, from the hotel, Shapira wrote a note to Dr....
A Brief Progress Update and a Scientific Opinion – Saturday, 4 August 1883
On Saturday, 4 August 1883, a brief update on the examination of the leather pieces appeared in The Athenæum in the Literary Gossip column.[1] It read: “The examination of the pieces of leather which Mr. Shapira has brought to London is proceeding, but...
The Story Breaks! – Friday, 3 August 1883
After the meeting of Thursday, 26 July 1883 at the office of the Palestine Exploration Fund, Dr. Ginsburg was placed in charge of the manuscript strips brought to England by Moses W. Shapira and tasked to examine them at the British Museum. The following Friday, 3...
A Return to London – August 1883
Over August, I intend to take The Moses Scroll blog readers to nineteenth-century London (not literally, but literarily*). That's right; you are invited to travel back in time with me to follow the chronological unfolding of the events surrounding Christian David...