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The Literary World, August 31, 1883.

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For more on this topic, see Jon D. Levenson, “Who Inserted the Book of the Torah?” Harvard Theological Review 68.3–4 (1975), pp. 203–233.

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David Frankel, The Murmuring Stories of the Priestly School: A Retrieval of Ancient Sacerdotal Lore, Supplements to Vetus Testamentum 89 (Leiden: Brill, 2002), pp. 145–148.

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John C. Trever, The Untold Story of Qumran (Westwood, New Jersey: Revell, 1965), p. 25. For more on the skeptical reception of the Dead Sea Scrolls, see Edmund Wilson, “The Scrolls from the Dead Sea,” New Yorker (May 14, 1955).

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Charles Clermont-Ganneau, letter printed in The London Sunday Times, August 21, 1883.

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See Idan Dershowitz, The Valediction of Moses: A Proto-Biblical Book, Forschungen zum Alten Testament 145 (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021); Idan Dershowitz, “The Valediction of Moses: New Evidence on the Shapira Deuteronomy Fragments,” Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 133.1 (2021), pp. 1–22. For an updated account of the Shapira story, see also Ross K. Nichols, The Moses Scroll (St. Francisville, LA: Horeb Press, 2021).

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Menahem Mansoor, “The Case of Shapira’s Dead Sea (Deuteronomy) Scrolls of 1883,” Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 47 (1958); Shlomo Guil, “The Shapira Scroll Was an Authentic Dead Sea Scroll,” Palestine Exploration Quarterly 149.1 (2017), pp. 6–27.

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See, e.g., Shimon Gesundheit, “Midrash-Exegesis in the Service of Literary Criticism,” in Christoph Berner and Harald Samuel, eds., The Reception of Biblical War Legislation in Narrative Contexts (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2015), pp. 73–86.

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Footnote 1 - The Shapira Scrolls: The Case for Authenticity

For this coauthored article, James Tabor wrote the introductory section “Dead Sea Scroll Similarities,” and Idan Dershowitz contributed the section “Genuine Manuscripts.”

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André Lemaire, “Paleography’s Verdict: They’re Fakes!” BAR, May/June 1997.

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