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Auctioning Off Judaism’s Past
Nothing could be more universally Jewish than the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible. Yet even here the book shows its uniquely Arabian influences in the way the scribe chose to ...
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As ‘oldest Ten Commandments’ go up for auction, some scholars question authenticity
It is not clear from media reports what particular form of Paleo-Hebrew, or potentially Samaritan ... and then obtained by Rabbi Saul Deutsch for his Living Torah Museum in Brooklyn, New York.
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Oldest known stone tablet inscribed with Ten Commandments to be auctioned
The 155-pound (52-kilogram) marble slab inscribed with the commandments in Paleo-Hebrew script will be auctioned ... verses familiar to Christian and Jewish traditions but omits the third ...
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Ancient tablet carved with Ten Commandments set for auction
Inscribed in Paleo-Hebrew script, the late Roman-Byzantine ... The slab’s text follows traditional Christian and Jewish biblical verses, though without the third commandment admonishing against ...