“Encuentran” en Texas el que quizás sea el libro de rezos judíos más antiguo fechado en el siglo IX

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Austin, Tex. — A 1,200-year-old parchment  Jewish prayer book that is billed as the oldest in existence was introduced  Sept. 27 by a prominent private collector of Biblical artifacts.

The complete 50-page book with original 13-by-10 centimeter binding features  early Babylonian vowels, which are a precursor to modern Hebrew vowels. Those,  along with Carbon-14 dating, helped scholars arrive at the 9th-century date,  which would make the prayer book several hundred years older than the oldest  Torah scrolls, although later than the Dead Sea Scrolls.

“This is the oldest Jewish prayer book known to exist in the world,” said  Steven Green, the president of the retail chain Hobby Lobby, announcing the  identification at the Religion Newswriters Association conference here.


Green’s eponymous collection, which contains more than 40,000 artifacts, is  slated to have a permanent home when the Museum of the Bible opens in  Washington, D.C.

Green Scholars believe that after research “that this artifact may very well  be the earliest connection today’s practicing Jews have to the roots of their  rabbinic liturgy,” added Green, who said that ancient Jewish practice was to  bury or ritually discard holy texts that had fallen into disrepair.

“It’s why we see so few Jewish texts dating even before the 15th century,”  Green said.

Full research on the book will be published next year or in early 2015 with  the Netherlands-based Brill, edited by Emanuel Tov, a bible professor at Hebrew  University of Jerusalem, and Jerry Pattengale, executive director of the Green  Scholars Initiative, according to Green.

In response to questions after the presentation, Green and Pattengale  declined to comment on how much the book cost, or which private collection it  came from. Pattengale said the book contains six segments, but didn’t say if  there were any inscriptions identifying the book’s patrons or early owners.

The collectors also declined to say whether the book was unearthed in the  Holy Land or elsewhere.

Read more: http://forward.com/articles/184640/-year-old-jewish-prayer-book-is-unveiled/#ixzz2ggPwqZ4P

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