Facebook Twitter On 20 July 1883, Moses Wilhelm Shapira arrived unannounced at 1 Adam Street in London, the headquarters of the Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF). He was greeted by Walter Besant, the secretary of the PEF. Shapira informed Besant that he had brought a manuscript to London written “on sheepskin in characters closely resembling those … Continue reading London’s First Look at Shapira’s Leather MSS