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1995
Journal article
C. D. Ginsburg and the Shapira Affair: a nineteenth-century Dead Sea Scroll controversy
IN July 1883, Moses Wilhelm Shapira, a well-known Jerusalem dealer in antiquities and ancient manuscripts, offered to sell a scroll of Deuteronomy to the British Museum, one of his regular customers. Thus began one of the most celebrated incidents in the history of biblical scholarship, a saga that continues more...Reiner, Fred N.