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COURTESY OF THE SYNDICS OF CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

ANCIENT BUT INCOMPLETE. This fragmentary manuscript page was recovered from the ocean of Jewish documents in the Cairo Genizah, a repository of sacred Jewish writings that had accumulated over centuries in the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Old Cairo, Egypt. Containing sections of Genesis 4-6, it is kept today in the Cambridge University Library (as T-S NS 4.3). This fairly legible sheet predates the Library of Congress’s new manuscript by about 200 years, but it survives incomplete.