Biblical Archaeology Review

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Endnote 4 - A Rare Torah in the Library of Congress

Mordechai Veintrob, “More Fragments of Early Torah Scroll Come to Light,” Genizah Fragments 77 (April 2019), pp. 1-2.

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Endnote 6 - A Rare Torah in the Library of Congress

Jordan Penkower, “A Sheet of Parchment from a 10th or 11th Century Torah Scroll,” Textus 21 (2002), pp. 235-264.

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Endnote 8 - A Rare Torah in the Library of Congress

This article is an expanded version of my online essay “The World’s Oldest Torah Scrolls,” The Ancient Near East Today, March 2018 (www.asor.org/anetoday/2018/03/Worlds-Oldest-Torah-Scrolls).

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Endnote 1 - A Rare Torah in the Library of Congress

The vast majority of Codex Sinaiticus is on display at the British Library. Additional leaves are in Leipzig and St. Petersburg and at St. Catherine’s Monastery in the Sinai.

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Endnote 3 - A Rare Torah in the Library of Congress

See the detailed study by Edna Engel and Mordechay Mishor, “An Ancient Scroll of the Book of Exodus: The Reunion of Two Separate Fragments,” Israel Museum Studies in Archaeology 7 (2015), pp. 24-61.

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Endnote 5 - A Rare Torah in the Library of Congress

Colette Sirat et al., “Rouleaux de la Tora antérieurs à l’an mille,” Comptes rendus des séances de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 138.4 (1994), pp. 861-887.

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Endnote 7 - A Rare Torah in the Library of Congress

To be sure, the practice of tagin is alluded to in the Babylonian Talmud, but the custom appears not to have taken hold until later.

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Footnote 1 - A Rare Torah in the Library of Congress

See “>Who Owns the Codex Sinaiticus?” BAR, 33:06.

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Footnote 6 - A Rare Torah in the Library of Congress

See Robin Ngo, “Book of Leviticus Verses Recovered from Burnt Hebrew Bible Scroll,” Bible History Daily (blog), April 9, 2018 www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-topics/hebrew-bible/book-of-leviticus-verses-recovered-from-burnt-hebrew-bible-scroll/).

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Footnote 2 - A Rare Torah in the Library of Congress

See Larry W. Hurtado, Archaeological Views: “Early Christian Dilemma: Codex or Scroll?” BAR, 44:06.

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