Photograph of one of the Shapira Scroll fragments, prepared by Frederick Dangerfield for Christian David Ginsburg
The Shapira Scroll, also known as the Shapira Strips or Shapira Manuscript, was a set of leather strips inscribed in Paleo-Hebrew script. It was presented by Moses Wilhelm Shapira in 1883 as an ancient Bible-related artifact and almost immediately denounced by scholars as a forgery.
The scroll consisted of fifteen leather strips, which Shapira claimed had been found in Wadi Mujib (biblical Arnon) near the Dead Sea. The Hebrew text hinted at a different version of Deuteronomy, including the addition of a new line to the Ten Commandments: "You shall not hate your brother in your heart: I am God, your god."[a] The text also lacks all laws except for the ten commandments, which it renders consistently[b] in the first-person, from the standpoint of the deity. Scholars took little time to reject it as a fake, and the shame brought about by the accusation of forgery drove Shapira to suicide in 1884.
Shapira's widow had at least part of the scroll in 1884, which she sent to Konstantin Schlottmann [de]. The scroll reappeared a couple of years later in a Sotheby's auction, where it was sold for £10 5s to Bernard Quaritch, who later listed it for £25. Contemporary reports show Dr. Philip Brookes Mason displayed the "whole of" the scroll at a public lecture in Burton-on-Trent on March 8, 1889. The current whereabouts of the scroll, if it survives, are unknown.
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The ShapiraScroll, also known as the Shapira Strips or Shapira Manuscript, was a set of leather strips inscribed in Paleo-Hebrew script. It was presented...
allegedly Biblical artifacts, the most high profile of which was the ShapiraScroll. The shame brought about by accusations that he was involved in the...
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as Britain's first Inspector of Ancient Monuments. Moses Shapira presents the ShapiraScroll, a continuing source of controversy. June 7 - Sylvanus G...
in 1883 Shapira presented what is now known as the "Shapira Strips", a supposedly ancient scroll written on leather strips which he claimed had been found...
Archived from the original on 10 July 2012. Retrieved 12 February 2010. Anita Shapira (1992). Land and Power. Stanford University Press. pp. 416, 419. Segev...
Corey Helfand, had the scroll restored by sofer (scribe) Rabbi Moshe Druin. In October 2017, Rabbi Helfand, Cantor Doron Shapira, Linda Oberstein, Steve...
(Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown and Co., 1st ed., 1974.) ISBN 0-316-53450-1 (Shapira, et al., 150) Fisher, Aaron (11 April 2011). The Way of Tea. p. 67. ISBN 9781462900220...
disciple of Firkovich also carrying the Bashyazi Sevel ha-Yerushah. Shapira, Dan DY Shapira (October 2010). "Firkovich/ Firkowicz". Encyclopedia of Jews in...
2011 Israel: A History (The Schusterman Series in Israel Studies) Anita Shapira 2012 My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel Ari Shavit 2013...
burn a synagogue for every bus shelter destroyed. MK Rabbi Avraham Yosef Shapira declared that "only in an anti-Semitic country could such acts take place...
Archived from the original on April 17, 2021. Retrieved August 19, 2017. Shapira, Ian (May 8, 2018). "Ku Klux Klan leader found guilty for firing gun at...
public discussion on issues related to the Holocaust. Historian Anita Shapira emphasized that on one hand, this indeed was the situation in certain aspects;...
Israelis and the Holocaust, New York: Hill and Wang, 1993 ISBN 0-8090-8563-1. Shapira Anita. ‘'Israel: A History'’ (Brandeis University Press/University Press...
2014-02-21. Archived from the original on 2021-10-03. Retrieved 2022-09-23. Shapira, Ian (2013-03-14). "Secret society is again at center of an uproar on Georgetown...
ISBN 978-0-88469-097-9. Levin, Yigal; Shapira, Amnon (2012). "Epilogue: War and peace in Jewish tradition-seven anomalies". In Levin, Yigal; Shapira, Amnon (eds.). War and...
Yitzchak by Yitzchak Aizik of Polotsk, Be'er Lechai Ro'i by Tzvi Hirsh Shapira of Munkatch/Dinov [Dynow], Kegan haYarak by Kalfa Guedj, Netzutzei Zohar...
University Press). Shapira, Dan (2003). Avraham Firkowicz in Istanbul (1830–1832): Paving the Way for Turkic Nationalism (Ankara, Karam). Shapira, Dan (2006)...
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