Saturday, June 01, 2013

The World's Oldest Torah Scroll

An Italian professor believes he has found the world's oldest and most complete torah scroll safely tucked away in the archives of University of Bologna.

After the completion of carbon tests, it is believed the scroll might possibly have been written some 850 years ago. Officials say the document was originally examined by a university librarian in 1889  and dated as having been written during the 17th century. But a recent re-evaluation of the scroll by university Professor of Hebrew, Mauro Perani, discovered that the scroll was written in oriental Babylonian tradition, which makes it very old. Officials also say the scroll contains text “features” that were later “forbidden” by Maimonides in the 12th century

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