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The Bologna Torah Scroll

Catalogued for a century as a clumsy seventeenth-century copy, Rotolo 2 of the Biblioteca Universitaria di Bologna was recognised in 2013 as the oldest complete Torah scroll known and as the “Bible of Ezra” once treasured by the Dominicans of San Domenico.

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