The Eleventh Commandment
Burns, Mary F. 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 one million pounds-the London papers could talk of nothing else for we...