Language:
English
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft
Angaben zur Quelle:
133,2 (2021) 225-230
Keywords:
Shapira, Mozes Vilhelm, Forgeries
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Dershowitz, Idan,
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Bible. Manuscripts
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Manuscripts, Hebrew
Abstract:
The Shapira manuscripts, putatively precursors of Deuteronomy, have many indications of forgery, particularly in the orthography, which mixes the writing conventions of the Mesha stele and the Hebrew Bible. Notably, the consistent use of waw, instead of he, to mark final ō is an anachronism. These problems were not perceivable by the text’s nineteenth century critics (or its forgers), but in hindsight are clear marks of the forger’s art.
DOI:
10.1515/zaw-2021-2008
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