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The Written Torah - How It Came About and Who Wrote It
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Ehav4Ever
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600 Year old Sefer Torah (Torah Scroll) From Yemen Brought To Israel With 19 Jews
Short translation: The man being interviewed is the head of a family of Yemenite Jews who were brought, about 8 years ago, to Israel. The family possessed a Torah scroll that was passed down in the family for ~600 years. The Torah is not kosher any more and can no longer be read from officially in a synagogue. It can be used for personal use. The interviewer mentions how the Torah is open to the section of the Torah that discusses the Benei Yisrael leaving Mitzrayim (Egypt). Head of the Yemenite family, is speaking in Yemenite Hebrew, with some Yemenite Jewish Arabic at times. He discusses the method with which was scrolled organized and scribed. Ehav4Ever Note: I actually know some of the family members in Beer Sheva of this family.
Ehav4Ever
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(22 Jan 2015) An ancient Torah scroll has been restored after making an unusual and mysterious journey from Baghdad to Jerusalem. Israeli experts in Jewish scribal tradition, who restored the Hebrew parchment scroll, say it was written in pomegranate ink, a rarely-used writing material, 200 years ago by two different scribes in northern Iraq. The scroll is a remnant of Iraq's 2,500-year-old Iraqi Jewish community, one of the world's oldest Jewish communities which all but disappeared when masses of Jews left for Israel following Israel's founding in 1948. Only a handful of Jews are left in Iraq today. Like other ancient Jewish texts from Arab lands, how exactly the scroll ended up in Israeli hands is unclear and Israeli officials offer different theories. The scroll was brought to Israel's Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem in 2012, where it sat undisturbed in the storage room. Only when Israel invited Jerusalem scribe Akiva Garber to inspect the scroll did it become clear the Torah was from Iraq. Garber and his organisation of scribes treated the neglected scroll over a period of months, using chemicals to restore the cracked letters, repairing tears in the parchment, and fixing some Hebrew letters so that it would be fit for ritual use.
Ehav4Ever
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An Israeli algorithm sheds light on the Bible
Software developed by an Israeli team is giving intriguing new hints about what researchers believe to be the multiple hands that wrote the Bible. The new software analyzes style and word choices to distinguish parts of a single text written by different authors, and when applied to the Bible...