Seeing the Giant Isaiah Scroll in Jerusalem

The scroll, found in 1947 by Bedouin shepherds, is an astonishing 717 centimeters long or 23 and a half feet. It was written in 125 BCE, so yes, it is more than two thousand years old.

Seeing it is frankly a spiritual experience; the neat handwriting, the editing—yes, later scribes changed what the first scribe wrote, and the sheer fact that it is two thousand years old and complete.

Seeing the Giant Isaiah Scroll in Jerusalem On the magnificent experience of the gigantic ancient scroll on view in Jerusalem. aviyakushner.substack.com
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