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The nineteenth century also saw one of the few examples of a forgery related to the Hebrew Bible. In 1883 Moses Shapira, a Jerusalem antiquities dealer, made efforts to sell fragments of a Deuteronomy scroll written in Moabite script and containing an eleventh commandment (“Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart: I am GOD, thy GOD”). This so-called “Shapira Scroll” was determined to be a forgery by Charles Clermont-Ganneau and David Ginsburg who argued that the text was written on strips taken from the lower margin of a disused synagogue roll and then treated with chemicals to look ancient.41
41. Chambers, History and Motives, 35.
For further discussion see
Rabinowicz, “Shapira Scroll”; and
Press, ‘“Lying Pen of Scribes.’”
Fakes, Forgeries, and Fictions
Fakes, Forgeries, and Fictions examines the possible motivations behind the production of apocryphal Christian texts. Did the authors of Christian apocrypha intend to deceive others about the true origins of their writings? Did they do so in a way that is distinctly different from New Testament...
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The nineteenth century also saw one of the few examples of a forgery related to the Hebrew Bible. In 1883 Moses Shapira, a Jerusalem antiquities dealer, made efforts to sell fragments of a Deuteronomy scroll written in Moabite script and containing an eleventh commandment (“Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart: I am GOD, thy GOD”). This so-called “Shapira Scroll” was determined to be a forgery by Charles Clermont-Ganneau and David Ginsburg who argued that the text was written on strips taken from the lower margin of a disused synagogue roll and then treated with chemicals to look ancient.41
41. Chambers, History and Motives, 35.
For further discussion see
Rabinowicz, “Shapira Scroll”; and
Press, ‘“Lying Pen of Scribes.’”