Wednesday, May 6, 2009
New Scroll Discovered
This will be of interest to scroll watchers.
A number of Israeli news agencies report scrolls were recovered from suspected thieves:
The rare historical document, handwritten in Hebrew on papyrus paper and estimated to be more than 2,000 years old, is a bill surrendering property rights. The document was written by a widow named Miryam Ben Yaakov, and hails from a period in which the people of Israel were exiled from the area and very few Jews remained.
A high resolution image of the ancient scroll is here
A number of Israeli news agencies report scrolls were recovered from suspected thieves:
The rare historical document, handwritten in Hebrew on papyrus paper and estimated to be more than 2,000 years old, is a bill surrendering property rights. The document was written by a widow named Miryam Ben Yaakov, and hails from a period in which the people of Israel were exiled from the area and very few Jews remained.
A high resolution image of the ancient scroll is here
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