Idan Dershowitz: A Clumsy Forgery or the Oldest Biblical Manuscript in Existence?


Idan Dershowitz is Chair of Hebrew Bible Exegesis at the University of Potsdam. In 2017 he was selected for Harvard's Society of Fellows. Dershowitz's dramatic claim that a long-thought forgery is both authentic and the oldest existing biblical manuscript was recently profiled in the New York Times. He is the author of The Dismembered Bible: Cutting and Pasting Scripture in Antiquity and The Valediction of Moses: A Proto-Biblical Book.