Hebrew Voices #188 – Writing a Torah Scroll: Part 1
In this episode of Hebrew Voices #188, Writing a Torah Scroll: Part 1, Nehemia learns about an ancient Torah scroll from Yemen written by a woman, how modern scribes use archaeology to illustrate the scroll of Esther, and how the … Continue reading →
In this episode of Hebrew Voices #188, Writing a Torah Scroll: Part 1, Nehemia learns about an ancient Torah scroll from Yemen written by a woman, how modern scribes use archaeology to illustrate the scroll of Esther, and how the history of Egypt helps us understand what the Torah originally looked like when Moses wrote it.
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Hebrew Voices #188 – Writing a Torah Scroll: Part 1
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Nehemia: Wait a minute. You’re telling me there’s a Torah scroll written by Miriam of the Benayahu family, a woman scribe, that was used in Yemen, in the National Library of Israel. That’s incredible… Wait, so if there’s no colophon, how do they know she wrote it?
Shalom, and welcome to Hebrew Voices! I’m Nehemia Gordon, and I’m here today with the female scribe, the soferet, Avielah Barclay. Shalom Avielah!
Avielah: Shalom, Nehemia.
Nehemia: So, you actually work as a scribe, which is somewhat unusual to be a woman who’s working as a scribe, but it’s becoming more common these days, isn’t it?
Avielah: It is becoming more common, yeah. We do have records of there being historical soferot, female scribes, that did ritual items like Torah scrolls and Tefillah.
Nehemia: I didn’t know about that. Tell me about that. What I did know about is there were female scribes who wrote regular manuscripts.
Avielah: Yeah.
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Vashti may have been drunk, and unable to appear in her royal attire. EW Faulstich did extensive research, [published in his History, Harmony & Daniel, Chronology Books, Spencer Iowa] about the historical Prophet Daniel, showing his influence through the time frame of Esther and the tutoring of Cyrus.
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