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August 21, 2018

An Ancient Village Appears to Have Been a Center for the Production of Gazelle-Hide Torah Scrolls

Confirming the evidence of the Talmud.

The Talmud requires that Torah scrolls be written on parchment made from the hide of a kosher animal, and notes that the hides of gazelles were particularly prized for this purpose. Armed with this information, archaeologists made sense of a recent finding in the Galilean village of Shikhin (modern-day Shukha), as Philippe Bohstrom writes. (Free registration may be required.)

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