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| Researchers with the Green Scholars Initiative have identified what is likely the oldest Jewish prayer book ever found, dated by both scholars and Carbon-14 tests to circa 840 A.D. |
Friday, 4 October 2013
Jewish Prayer Book Predates Oldest Torah Scroll
Posted on 03:55 by john mical
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Scholars are calling a rare Hebrew text dating back to the 9th century the earliest known Jewish prayer book, predating the world's oldest Torah scroll. The 50-page book is 4.3 inches tall and about 4 inches wide and is written in an archaic form of Hebrew, on pages of aged parchment. The text includes 100 Jewish blessings and discusses topics such as the apocalyptic tale of the End Times and the Passover Seder. Carbon testing dates the prayer book to the year 840, which is 300 to 400 years before the oldest known Torah scroll from the 12th and 13th centuries. Jewish Prayer Book Predates Oldest Torah Scroll ... was found in Tarquinia, a hill town about 50 miles northwest of Rome famous for its Etruscan art treasures. [link]
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