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A quest is under way on four continents to find the missing pages of one of the world's most important holy texts, the 1,000-year-old Hebrew Bible known as the Crown of Aleppo. Crusaders held it ...
Scholars believe that Aleppo Jews still hold many of the missing pages and that others have fallen into the hands of antiquities dealers. Two fragments have already surfaced: a full page, in 1982 ...
A quest is under way on four continents to find the missing pages of one of the world's most important holy texts, the 1,000-year-old Hebrew Bible known as the Crown of Aleppo.
The Egypt Exploration Society said a University of Oxford professor illegally sold Bible fragments to Hobby Lobby Stores without permission in 2010.
A new chapter of the Bible has been found, hidden inside a 1,750-year-old translation from the Gospel of Matthew. The chapter was found by medievalist Grigory Kessel, who used ultraviolet ...
Wells marketed the individual leaves as “Noble Fragments,” a phrase the journalist Michael Visontay borrows for the title of his absorbing investigation into the fates of the separated pages.
World’s second-oldest Bible fragment posted online. ... a 2,000-year-old fragment containing the Ten Commandments and part of the Shema prayer discovered in Egypt in the late 19th century. ...