The eighth-century Afghan Liturgical Quire “pushes the history of the Jewish book back approximately 200 years,” the scholar Gary Rendsburg told JNS.
12 October, 2024
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Second Temple period phylacteries found near Qumran underwent a battery of scientific tests.
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