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The Athenaeum 2805 (1881), p. 144; ibid., 2806 (1881), p. 176; ibid., 2807 (1881), p. 208.

The Athenaeum 2856 (1882), p. 114.

The Athenaeum 2855 (1882), p. 80 ibid., 2856 (1882), pp. 113–114.

Reinhart Hoerning, British Museum Karaite Manuscripts: Descriptions and Collation of Six Karaite Manuscripts of Portions of the Hebrew Bible in Arabic Characters (London: Williams and Norgate, 1889), p. v.

George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1935), part 4, by Jacob Leveen, pp. viii–ix. Leveen, although reversing Shapira’s initials, confirms, “It was this bookseller who offered to the Museum fragments of the Pentateuch on leather purporting to be of extreme antiquity, but afterward discovered to be forgeries” (p. ix n. 1).

Harry, The Little Daughter of Jerusalem (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1919). For other information about Shapira’s status as a British Museum correspondent, see Allegro, Shapira Affair, p. 17.

The Times, March 9, 1914.

“Hamegillot Hagenuzot” (“The Hidden Scrolls”), Ha’aretz, April 20, 1956.

John Hillaby, “American Revives Bible Scroll Case,” The New York Times, August 13, 1956, p. 1. See also the subsequent article, “Scholars Dispute Scrolls’ Validity,” The New York Times, December 28, 1956, p. 14.

See Silberman, The Hidden Scrolls (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1994), pp. 35–36.