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Sacred Treasure - The Cairo Genizah

The Great Discovery

November 19, 2010 13:21
Sacred Treasure the Cairo Genizah

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Rabbi Mark Glickman
Jewish Lights, $24.99

Rabbi Mark Glickman, of Washington, tells the story of one of the great archaeological Jewish finds: 300,000 ancient documents secreted in the attic of an Egyptian synagogue – including early copies of the Dead Sea Scrolls and samples of Maimonides’s own handwriting.

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