Endnote 1 – Paleography’s Verdict: They’re Fakes!

See J.L. Teicher, “The Genuineness of the Shapira Manuscripts,” The Times Literary Supplement, March 22, 1957, p. 184; Menahem Mansoor, “The Case of Shapira’s Dead Sea (Deuteronomy) Scrolls of 1883,” Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 47 (1959), pp. 183–229; John Marco Allegro, The Shapira Affair (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1965). For critics of this last book, see Oskar K. Rabinowicz, “The Shapira Scroll: A Nineteenth-Century Forgery,” Jewish Quarterly Review 56 (1965), pp. 1–21.