Open AccessThe Ashkar-Gilson Manuscript: Remnant of a Proto-Masoretic Model Scroll of the Torah
Author(s) -
Paul Sanders
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of hebrew scriptures
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1203-1542
DOI - 10.5508/jhs.2014.v14.a7
Subject(s) - scroll , torah , literature , philosophy , art , classics , history , theology , judaism
The article provides a first publication of the Ashkar-Gilson manuscript, describing its main features. It argues that this manuscript, along with another, better preserved manuscript (the so-called London Manuscript), is the remnant of a 7th or 8th-century Torah scroll of exceptionally high quality. Several unique details suggest that the scroll was consulted by the Tiberian Masoretes when they developed their project of producing model codices of the Bible.