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Oldest known complete Torah scroll found--hiding in plain sight.

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posted on May, 29 2013 @ 02:03 PM
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ROME (AP) — An Italian expert in Hebrew manuscripts said Wednesday he had discovered the oldest known complete Torah scroll, a sheepskin document dating from 1155-1225. It was right under his nose, in the University of Bologna library, where it had been mistakenly catalogued a century ago as dating from the 17th century.

The find isn't the oldest Torah text in the world: the Leningrad and the Aleppo bibles — both of them Hebrew codexes, or books — pre-date the Bologna scroll by more than 200 years. But this is the oldest Torah scroll of the Pentateuch, the five books of Moses, according to Mauro Perani, a professor of Hebrew in the University of Bologna's cultural heritage department......

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posted on May, 29 2013 @ 02:09 PM
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wow

but as with everything in our new age... proceed with extreme caution

is it really an original first copy.... looks well preserved for the oldest abrahamic religion.

i, more hope then accept that this is what they say it is

but lets see

great find OP

peace



posted on May, 29 2013 @ 04:26 PM
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[An Introduction to the Book of Exodus - Biblical Studies Foundation
bible.org/article/introduction-book-exodus‎
1 Kings 6:1 indicates the Exodus occurred 480 years prior to the 4th year of Solomon's reign. His 4th year is variously dated at 966/960/957 B.C., placing the ...]

Date fit into Exodus to Solomon perhaps.
Not an expert I just read through some of Velikovsky's work and he didn't like the years
ascribed by the scholars of ancient history and sought a reevaluation of dates.



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