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A True Story that Reads Like Fiction Nearly 150 years have passed since Moses Shapira, an antiquarian book dealer in Jerusalem, up-ended the Victorian world of biblical scholars and archaeologists by declaring he had discovered the earliest Bible text in the world—an original Book of Deuteronomy, which included the Commandments—eleven of them. He offered fifteen leather-like fragments to the British Museum for, it was rumored, one million pounds—the London papers could talk of nothing else for weeks in the summer of 1883, and Shapira was a celebrity. Experts at the museum pored over the manuscripts and came to a decision: they were forgeries, not the 3000-year-old scrolls that Moses insisted they were. He left London in disgrace. Six months later, he was found in a shabby hotel in Rotterdam, a bullet through his head. But was it suicide, as the police thought, or was it murder? Historical fiction author Mary F. Burns has incorporated Shapira's story into the fourth book of her series, The John Singer Sargent/Violet Paget Mysteries. She has consulted with scholars and researchers who are currently involved in the continuing debate about the authenticity of "The Shapira Scrolls", the

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Author

Mary F. Burns

Publisher

Word by Word Press

Published

2022

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Thriller, Fiction

Rating

3.84 / 5 (57 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14