[Avodah] Reliability of the Mesorah

Zev Sero via Avodah avodah at lists.aishdas.org
Thu Sep 22 21:47:44 PDT 2016


On 22/09/16 10:31, Micha Berger via Avodah wrote:
>>From <http://j.mp/2dmtibe> (compressed from http://www.independent.co.uk...)
> the Independent (UK) tech column, with AP material folded in, about
> what it took to be able to read a copy of Vayiqra from the bayis sheini
> era. And not from some group of minim in the desert, but in use, in a shul.
>
> To jump to the point "100% identical", "This is quite amazing for us," [Dr
> Emmanuel Tov, Hebrew U] said. "In 2,000 years, this text has not changed."

What is the fragment in the picture, though?  I can't make head or tail
of it, and it certainly doesn't look to me like any part of Vayikra.

-- 
Zev Sero               Meaningless combinations of words do not acquire
zev at sero.name          meaning merely by appending them to the two other
                        words `God can'.  Nonsense remains nonsense, even
                        when we talk it about God.   -- C S Lewis



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