paleography

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The Bar Kokhba Letters and the Cave of Letters

Among the manuscript discoveries of the twentieth century, the small archive of papyri known as the Bar Kokhba Letters occupies a place of quite singular importance for the modern study of Jewish…

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The Isaiah Scroll 1Q Isaiah

It is one of the longest biblical manuscripts ever found from antiquity. Written in Hebrew, on seventeen columns of leather, it contains every chapter of the book of Isaiah from the disputed…