Endnote 1 – The Shapira Scrolls: The Case for Forgery
We are summarizing and expanding on Matthieu Richelle, “The Shapira Strips in Light of Paleography: Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast,” Semitica 63 (2021), pp. 243–294; and Ronald Hendel, “Notes on the Orthography of the Shapira Manuscripts: The Forger’s Marks,” Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 133 (2021), pp. 225–230. Our thanks to Idan Dershowitz for alerting us to the British Library script chart.