In this Support Team Study, Looking Under the Hood of a Torah Scroll: Part 4, Nehemia and research assistant Nelson Calvillo continue a series on the oldest (nearly) complete surviving Torah. They unpack Nehemia’s lecture at the World Congress of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem presented to the top scholars in the field of Biblical Studies. In part 4, they discuss anomalies in the way scribes corrected this manuscript, the struggles scribes face when copying from one manuscript to another, and even an example of God’s name being erased!

In this Support Team Study, Looking Under the Hood of a Torah Scroll: Part 3, Nehemia and research assistant Nelson Calvillo continue a series on the oldest (nearly) complete surviving Torah. They unpack Nehemia’s lecture at the World Congress of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem presented to the top scholars in the field of Biblical Studies. In part 3, they discuss the beautiful traditional layout of the Song of the Sea, the tradition of dots dating back to second temple times, and a secret phrase encoded in most Torah scrolls by Jewish scribes.