Hebrew Voices #148 – Looking Under the Hood of a Torah Scroll: Part 1

In this episode of Hebrew Voices, Looking Under the Hood of a Torah Scroll: Part 1, 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 1, they discuss the background of the scroll and its significance, the ways in which it’s been damaged and preserved, and the marks and lines the scribes used to write it.

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00:00 Intro

13:00 Parchment vs. leather

19:16 The age and significance of the scroll

21:37 Destruction and preservation

29:17 Pricking marks & ruling lines

VERSES MENTIONED

Exodus 15

Genesis 33:4

OTHER LINKSDr. Gordon’s PhD dissertation:The Writing, Erasure, and Correction of the Tetragrammaton in Medieval Hebrew Bible Manuscripts

MgKeter Database

The Institute for Hebrew Bible Manuscript Research

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