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Author : Ross Nichols
Publisher : Horeb Press
ISBN 13 : 9781736613405
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (134 download)
Download or read book The Moses Scroll written by Ross Nichols and published by Horeb Press. This book was released on 2021-02-24 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reopening the Most Controversial Case in the History of Biblical Scholarship
Author : Idan Dershowitz
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 3161606442
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (616 download)
Download or read book The Valediction of Moses written by Idan Dershowitz and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moses Wilhelm Shapira's infamous Deuteronomy manuscripts -- long believed to be forgeries -- are of far greater significance than ever imagined. Idan Dershowitz shows that the text preserved in these manuscripts is not based on the book of Deuteronomy. On the contrary, it is a proto-biblical book, the likes of which has never before been seen.
Author : Chanan Tigay
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062206435
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)
Download or read book The Lost Book of Moses written by Chanan Tigay and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One man’s quest to find the oldest Bible scrolls in the world and uncover the story of the brilliant, doomed antiquarian accused of forging them. In the summer of 1883, Moses Wilhelm Shapira—archaeological treasure hunter and inveterate social climber—showed up unannounced in London claiming to have discovered the oldest copy of the Bible in the world. But before the museum could pony up his £1 million asking price for the scrolls—which discovery called into question the divine authorship of the scriptures—Shapira’s nemesis, the French archaeologist Charles Clermont-Ganneau, denounced the manuscripts, turning the public against him. Distraught over this humiliating public rebuke, Shapira fled to the Netherlands and committed suicide. Then, in 1947 the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. Noting the similarities between these and Shapira’s scrolls, scholars made efforts to re-examine Shapira’s case, but it was too late: the primary piece of evidence, the parchment scrolls themselves had mysteriously vanished. Tigay, journalist and son of a renowned Biblical scholar, was galvanized by this peculiar story and this indecipherable man, and became determined to find the scrolls. He sets out on a quest that takes him to Australia, England, Holland, Germany where he meets Shapira’s still aggrieved descendants and Jerusalem where Shapira is still referred to in the present tense as a “Naughty boy”. He wades into museum storerooms, musty English attics, and even the Jordanian gorge where the scrolls were said to have been found all in a tireless effort to uncover the truth about the scrolls and about Shapira, himself. At once historical drama and modern-day mystery, The Lost Book of Moses explores the nineteenth-century disappearance of Shapira’s scrolls and Tigay's globetrotting hunt for the ancient manuscript. As it follows Tigay’s trail to the truth, the book brings to light a flamboyant, romantic, devious, and ultimately tragic personality in a story that vibrates with the suspense of a classic detective tale.
Author : Scriptural Research Institute
Publisher : Digital Ink Productions
ISBN 13 : 199828879X
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (982 download)
Download or read book The Shapira Scrolls written by Scriptural Research Institute and published by Digital Ink Productions. This book was released on 2024-07-20 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shapira scrolls, also known as the Shapira manuscript or Moabite Deuteronomy, are a collection of leather strips supposedly discovered in the Arnon Valley of modern Jordan in the 1860s. While they were initially accepted as authentic by the Jewish antiquities dealer Moses Shapira, they were later discredited as forgeries by German and British biblical scholars. Since the discovery of the Dead Sea scrolls in the 1940s, there have been several scholars who have called into question the claims that the leather strips were a forgery, however, their whereabouts is unknown, and therefore no modern analysis of the leather strips is possible. Several reasons were given for the initial claims that the strips were a forgery, including the script, language, and content. The script is a form of Phoenician, similar to the Moabite script of the 800s BC, however, the language includes Imperial Aramaic terms not used until the Persian era, several centuries later. The content is not a match for any surviving translation of Deuteronomy, however, it does include many parallel statements. Some of the statements are somewhat heretical, however, they do seem similar to the beliefs of the Hasidian and Tobian sects reported to have been living in the region under Greek rule between 330 and 240 BC. Moses Shapira had previously been involved in the discovery and authentication of both authentic and fraudulent artifacts for the museums and universities of Europe, including five scrolls inscribed on leather sold in 1870, that were later assumed to be forgeries in 1884 and have subsequently disappeared. His biggest ‘swindle’ was thousands of fake Moabite artifacts labeled as Moabitica, which were apparently dug up at a site in the Arnon Valley of modern Jordan. These artifacts included stone heads, and clay vessels inscribed with Moabite text, and were dug up by both Shapira’s workers and German scholars, who later assumed Shapira’s people hid the artifacts there for them to find. The Altes Museum in Berlin bought the largest collection of these artifacts, at 1700, however, there were additional sales to other institutions and individuals across Europe, and the total number of artifacts is unknown.
Author : Anita Shapira
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804793131
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Yosef Haim Brenner written by Anita Shapira and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-17 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on previously unexploited primary sources, this is the first comprehensive biography of Yosef Haim Brenner, one of the pioneers of Modern Hebrew literature. Born in 1881 to a poor Jewish family in Russia, Brenner published his first story, "A Loaf of Bread," in 1900. After being drafted into the Russian army, he deserted to England and later immigrated to Palestine where he became an eminent writer, critic and cultural icon of the Jewish and Zionist cultural milieu. His life was tragically ended in the violent 1921 Jaffa riots. In a nutshell, Brenner's life story encompasses the generation that made "the great leap" from Imperial Russia's Pale of Settlement to the metropolitan centers of modernity, and from traditional Jewish beliefs and way of life to secularism and existentialism. In his writing he experimented with language and form, but always attempting to portray life realistically. A highly acerbic critic of Jewish society, Brenner was relentless in portraying the vices of both Jewish public life and individual Jews. Most of his contemporaries not only accepted his critique, but admired him for his forthrightness and took it as evidence of his honesty and veracity. Renowned author and historian Anita Shapira's new biography illuminates Brenner's life and times, and his relationships with leading cultural leaders such as Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon, Hayim Nahman Bialik, Israel's National Poet, and many others. Undermining the accepted myths about his life and his death, his depression, his relations with writers, women, and men—including the question of his homoeroticism—this new biography examines Brenner's life in all its complexity and contradiction.
Author : John Marco Allegro
Publisher : Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Shapira Affair written by John Marco Allegro and published by Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday. This book was released on 1965 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1880's Shapira arrived in England with several strips of parchment, claiming that they were found in the Dead Sea area and were part of an eraly version of Deuteronomy. Experts called them forgeries. Some scholars now believe that they may actually have been a portion of the oldest Bible in the world.
Author : Marc Michaels
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004426361
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Sefer Tagin Fragments from the Cairo Genizah written by Marc Michaels and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Sefer Tagin Fragments from the Cairo Genizah, Marc Michaels recreates fragments from the scribal manual concerning decorative tagin and 'strange' letters found in some Sifrey Torah.
Author : Sophie Hardach
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789543940
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (895 download)
Download or read book Languages Are Good for Us written by Sophie Hardach and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about languages and the people who love them. Sophie Hardach is here to guide us through the strange and wonderful ways that humans have used languages throughout history. She takes us from the earliest Mesopotamian clay tablets and the 'book cemeteries' of medieval synagogues to the first sounds a child hears in their mother's womb and their incredible capacity for language learning. Along the way, Hardach explores the role of trade in transmitting words across cultures and untangles riddles of hieroglyphics, cuneiform and the ancient scripts of Crete and Cyprus. This is a book about languages, the people who love them and the linguistic threads that connect us all. 'Impeccably researched and engagingly presented... Sophie Hardach tells wonderful stories about words that have travelled vast distances in space and time to make English what it is' David Bellos, author of Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything
Author : Matti Friedman
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 161620270X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (162 download)
Download or read book The Aleppo Codex written by Matti Friedman and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2014 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature A thousand years ago, the most perfect copy of the Hebrew Bible was written. It was kept safe through one upheaval after another in the Middle East, and by the 1940s it was housed in a dark grotto in Aleppo, Syria, and had become known around the world as the Aleppo Codex. Journalist Matti Friedman’s true-life detective story traces how this precious manuscript was smuggled from its hiding place in Syria into the newly founded state of Israel and how and why many of its most sacred and valuable pages went missing. It’s a tale that involves grizzled secret agents, pious clergymen, shrewd antiquities collectors, and highly placed national figures who, as it turns out, would do anything to get their hands on an ancient, decaying book. What it reveals are uncomfortable truths about greed, state cover-ups, and the fascinating role of historical treasures in creating a national identity.
Author : John Marco Allegro
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040010466
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The People of the Dead Sea Scrolls written by John Marco Allegro and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-09 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1959, The People of the Dead Sea Scrolls gives a complete pictorial record of the dramatic story of the Dead Sea Scrolls – actually shows the places where the Scrolls were found, as well as the desert and caves in which the people of the Scrolls lived just before the dawn of Christianity. The striking photographs tell the exciting story of the discovery of the Scrolls and the subsequent archaeological excavations and research. They also show the rocky desert with the remains of the ancient Essene community in which the people of the Scrolls practiced their austere faith, and the Scrolls themselves, which reflect the life of the desert settlement, its leaders, and its religious spirit. This book will be of interest to students of history, religion and archaeology.
Author : Aaron Koller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107048354
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Esther in Ancient Jewish Thought written by Aaron Koller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book situates the book of Esther in the intellectual history of Ancient Judaism and provides a new understanding of its purpose.
Author : Idan Dershowitz
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 3161598601
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (615 download)
Download or read book The Dismembered Bible written by Idan Dershowitz and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is often presumed that biblical redaction was invariably done using scribal methods, meaning that when editors sought to modify or compile existing texts, they would do so in the process of rewriting them upon new scrolls. There is, however, substantial evidence pointing to an alternative scenario: Various sections of the Hebrew Bible appear to have been created through a process of material redaction. In some cases, ancient editors simply appended new sheets to existing scrolls. Other times, they literally cut and pasted their sources, carving out patches of text from multiple manuscripts and then gluing them together like a collage. Idan Dershowitz shows how this surprising technique left behind telltale traces in the biblical text - especially when the editors made mistakes - allowing us to reconstruct their modus operandi. Material evidence from the ancient Near East and elsewhere further supports his hypothesis.
Author : Nehemia Polen
Publisher : Jason Aronson
ISBN 13 : 1461631394
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)
Download or read book The Holy Fire written by Nehemia Polen and published by Jason Aronson. This book was released on 1999-06-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Holy Fire: The Teachings of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, the Rebbe of the Warsaw Ghetto is a journey into the mind and spirit of a sublime hasidic master in his moments of joy and tranquillity, and later, in his time of personal and communal catastrophe. The reader takes a voyage into the rich and variegated world of twentieth-century Hasidism in Poland, a world destroyed by the Holocaust. This is a volume inspired by a deeply sensitive and poetic individual of faith who is grappling with an unfolding disaster. While the Holocaust has engendered a voluminous body of religious and philosophical writings attempting to probe the issues this unfathomable period raises in all their enormity, virtually all were written after the war, when a modicum of distance and reflection is possible. Contemporaneous diaries and chronicles written as the events were happening concentrate on the descriptive accounts of the horrors. The Holy Fire, however, engages a sustained theological reflection and stands alone as an extended religious response from within the heart of darkness itself while the catastrophe takes place, and is, for this reason, an extraordinary document and an astonishing personal achievement.
Author : James D. Tabor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 074328724X
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)
Download or read book The Jesus Dynasty written by James D. Tabor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-04-24 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on close analysis of early Christian documents and recent archeological discoveries by the author and other experts, "The Jesus Dynasty" offers a bold new interpretation of the life of Jesus and the origins of Christianity. of illustrations. (Christian Religion)
Author : James D. Tabor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439123322
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Paul and Jesus written by James D. Tabor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on St. Paul's letters and other early sources to reveal the apostles' sharply competing ideas about the significance of Jesus and his teachings while demonstrating how St. Paul independently shaped Christianity as it is known today.
Author : Jean-Pierre Isbouts
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 142621913X
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (262 download)
Download or read book In the Footsteps of Jesus written by Jean-Pierre Isbouts and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring the latest archaeological and historical discoveries, this guide illustrates the people and events that shaped the life of Jesus, from his birth in Bethlehem to his death in Jerusalem.
Author : John Marco Allegro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Treasure of the Copper Scroll written by John Marco Allegro and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
