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'World's oldest Torah' scroll found in Italy

Started by god1quran1, May 31, 2013, 08:34:22 AM

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The University of Bologna in Italy has found what it says may be the oldest complete scroll of Judaism's most important text, the Torah.

The scroll was in the university library but had been mislabelled, a professor at the university says.

It was previously thought the scroll was no more that a few hundred years old.

However, after carbon dating tests, the university has said the text may have been written more than 850 years ago.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22697098

It will be interesting to know if there are any major differences between this scroll and present day Torah although I would assume that even this scroll will not be in its original form to what was revealed to Moses and Aaron.

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youssef4342

There are variations within many scriptures, from  the Torah (Septuagint, Samaritan etc), to the Quran Qi'raaat (Hafs, warsh etc)...  These don't necessarily make the whole text invalid. There are Guidance and light in all :)

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Abdullah1

even so the prophet SAW was here 1400 hundred years ago and the Tora is carbon dated 850 years ago ...not legit at all
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Peace,

The original Torah was the Law written on tablets. I doubt they contained much text considered they were written and carried down the mountain by Moses. Most likely it was only the classical 'Ten Commandments' and perhaps some minor additional texts. The other stuff you find in the Bible's Old Testament is most likely hadith. The 'Ten' Commandments' in today's "Torah" are distorted and have added procedures like stoning. Apart from the obvious distortion, if you disregard the nonsense these are the same rules that Moses came down the mountain with.

The phrase in the Torah talking about not making an image is often misinterpreted by people that pictures are disallowed in religion, especially by traditional muslims who want to justify their hadith-based law. The phrase in the Bible is most probably talking about making statues or other such imagery of God to use to worship Him.

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