Author:
Chanan Tigay
Stars:
1
Review by: Mandy Apgar
There are books that are painful. That leave open, stabbing
wounds of dullness. This was one of them. It managed to pass my ultimate
"really crappy biography" test of that the central person of interest
died. The silly book was so unfocused I didn't even realize it until I
saw a date and recalled from prior research the man was dead. But more
or less - in 1883 Moses Shapira shows up in London with ancient scrolls
he says predate most Biblical material. A then leading expert said
Shapira was a fraud and six months later the latter kills himself in
disgrace. Point of the book was to illuminate Shapira's legacy and if
his scrolls were indeed legitimate or not. But the author seemed a bit
too full of himself sometimes - self referential, would go on for pages
about side topics, and for those with knowledge of the case he said very
little if nothing (at least for me) new.
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