In this episode of Hebrew Voices, Looking Under the Hood of a Torah Scroll: Part 2, Nehemia and research assistant Nelson Calvillo launch a series on the oldest (nearly) complete surviving Torah. They unpack Nehemia’s lecture at the World Congress of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem presented to the top scholars in the field of Biblical Studies.  In part 2, they discuss the spaces dividing the text, their origins dating back to ancient times, and how the manuscript reflects two separate traditions regarding those divisions.

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VIDEO CHAPTERS00:29 Comparison to the Aleppo Codex09:56 Setumot and petuchot - open and closed spaces23:27 Ancient divisions of the text27:52 Closing thoughts/Institute of Hebrew Bible Manuscript Research - IHBMR

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Exodus 15

Genesis 33:4

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Dr. Gordon’s PhD dissertation:

The Writing, Erasure, and Correction of the Tetragrammaton in Medieval Hebrew Bible Manuscripts

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