The lost book of Moses : the hunt for the world's oldest bible / Chanan Tigay.
In the summer of 1883 Moses Wilhelm Shapira arrived in London claiming to have discovered the world's oldest Bible scroll. Written centuries earlier in the barren plains east of the Dead Sea and stashed away in caves, the mysterious scrolls called into question the divine authorship of the scriptures, taking three thousand years of religious faith and turning them upside down. Before the British Museum could acquire them Shapira's nemesis, French archaeologist Charles Clermont-Ganneau, denounced the find as a fraud. Six months later Shapira was dead; the scrolls vanished. Tigay set out to find the scrolls and determine Shapira's guilt or innocence for himself.
Record details
- ISBN: 0062206419
- ISBN: 9780062206411
- ISBN: 9780062206428
- ISBN: 0062206427
- Physical Description: x, 354 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016]
- Copyright: ©2016
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-354). |
| Formatted Contents Note: | From Philadelphia to Jerusalem -- A Bible and a spade -- London -- An epic battle -- Rotterdam -- Sculpting a civilization -- Paris -- Germany -- The antiquarian and the murderer -- Terra incognita -- Sydney -- London calling -- From Paris with doubts -- Playing defense -- In light of recent discoveries -- Burton-on-Trent -- Mr. Sharp-Eye-Ra -- San Francisco. |
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| Subject: | Shapira, Mozes Wilhelm, 1830?-1884 > Forgeries. Bible. Deuteronomy > Manuscripts, Hebrew. Bible > Manuscripts, Hebrew > Forgeries. Forgers > Israel > History. |
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