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Shapira Scroll. The presentation made it an old biblical work of art and the main focal point of archaeological debate. I remember the specific time as I was preparing for my PhD. It was a manuscript that contained bible verses. And for the second example the Shapira manuscript is missing.
I first heard of Moses Shapira in graduate school at the University of Chicago the summer of 1976. The label and Wilmots brief description stuck. Moses Shapira presented Shapira Scroll in a written Hebrew script in 1883. Shapira tried to sell it to get rich but it turned out to be a forgery and Shapira thoroughly exposed and shamed put a bullet in his head. To leave in the readers mind the thought of a link between the Qumran Scrolls and the Shapira fragments. The scroll consisted of fifteen leather strips and Shapira claimed to have found it in Wadi Mujib near the Dead SeaThe Hebrew text hinted at a different version of.
Shapira tried to sell it to get rich but it turned out to be a forgery and Shapira thoroughly exposed and shamed put a bullet in his head.
Moses Shapira and his Dead Sea Scroll Last seen March 8 1889. Dead Sea Scrolls March 8 2021. This scroll was made up of fifteen leather strips. The Shapira scroll was discovered near the Dead Sea The circumstances described by Shapira leading to the discovery of his document in a cave near the Dead Sea are similar to those described more than sixty years later by the Bedouin who found the first Dead Sea scrolls. The Shapira Scroll also known as the Shapira Strips was a manuscript written in Paleo-Hebrew scriptIt was presented by Moses Shapira in 1883 as an ancient Biblical artifact and immediately denounced by scholars as a forgery. I first heard of Moses Shapira in graduate school at the University of Chicago the summer of 1976.