The oldest legible, intact Torah scroll sheet known to exist—a vital link to the founding documents of Judaism—was purchased by the Library of Congress for the public’s benefit, with help from Professor Gary A. Rendsburg, the Blanche and Irving Laurie Chair in Jewish History at Rutgers. The story of the Jews’ flight from Egypt is contained on the sheet, which was written in Hebrew on vellum in the Middle East during the tenth or eleventh century CE.
Link to lecture at Library of Congress by Professor Gary Rendsburg:
Also of interest:
Professor Rendsburg’s recent book How the Bible is Written (Hendrickson Publishers, 2019)
Book information
Professor Rendsburg's review of the new translation of the Hebrew Bible by Robert Alter
Read review
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