The Lost Book of Moses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lost Book of Moses write by Chanan Tigay. This book was released on 2016-04-12. The Lost Book of Moses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One man’s quest to find the oldest Bible scrolls in the world and uncover the story of the brilliant, doomed antiquarian accused of forging them. In the summer of 1883, Moses Wilhelm Shapira—archaeological treasure hunter and inveterate social climber—showed up unannounced in London claiming to have discovered the oldest copy of the Bible in the world. But before the museum could pony up his £1 million asking price for the scrolls—which discovery called into question the divine authorship of the scriptures—Shapira’s nemesis, the French archaeologist Charles Clermont-Ganneau, denounced the manuscripts, turning the public against him. Distraught over this humiliating public rebuke, Shapira fled to the Netherlands and committed suicide. Then, in 1947 the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. Noting the similarities between these and Shapira’s scrolls, scholars made efforts to re-examine Shapira’s case, but it was too late: the primary piece of evidence, the parchment scrolls themselves had mysteriously vanished. Tigay, journalist and son of a renowned Biblical scholar, was galvanized by this peculiar story and this indecipherable man, and became determined to find the scrolls. He sets out on a quest that takes him to Australia, England, Holland, Germany where he meets Shapira’s still aggrieved descendants and Jerusalem where Shapira is still referred to in the present tense as a “Naughty boy”. He wades into museum storerooms, musty English attics, and even the Jordanian gorge where the scrolls were said to have been found all in a tireless effort to uncover the truth about the scrolls and about Shapira, himself. At once historical drama and modern-day mystery, The Lost Book of Moses explores the nineteenth-century disappearance of Shapira’s scrolls and Tigay's globetrotting hunt for the ancient manuscript. As it follows Tigay’s trail to the truth, the book brings to light a flamboyant, romantic, devious, and ultimately tragic personality in a story that vibrates with the suspense of a classic detective tale.
The Mystery of the Long Lost 8th 9th and 10th Books of Moses
The Mystery of the Long Lost 8th 9th and 10th Books of Moses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mystery of the Long Lost 8th 9th and 10th Books of Moses write by Henri Gamache. This book was released on 2013-12. The Mystery of the Long Lost 8th 9th and 10th Books of Moses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Many books have been written about Moses, the Prophet; the Seer; Moses, the Law Giver; Moses, the Philosopher; Moses, the Magician. Of them all, Moses, the Magician has been a most fascinationg subject for millions of people for many generations. The genuine awe with which people have regarded this almost legendary figure has been the reason why it has been so easy lifting the veil which still half hides him from a seeking multitude.
The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses
The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses write by Edmund Kelly. This book was released on 2019-08-23. The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses is an 18th- or 19th-century magical text allegedly written by Moses, and passed down as hidden (or lost) books of the Jewish Tanakh. Self-described as ""the wonderful arts of the old Hebrews, taken from the Mosaic books of the cabala and the Talmud,"" it is actually a grimoire, or text of magical incantations and seals, that purports to instruct the reader in the spells used to create some of the miracles portrayed in the Bible as well as to grant other forms of good fortune and good health. The work contains reputed Talmudic magic names, words, and ideograms, some written in Hebrew and some with letters from the Latin alphabet. It contains ""Seals"" or magical drawings accompanied by instructions intended to help the user perform various tasks, from controlling weather or people to contacting the dead or Biblical religious figures. Edited and illustrated by Edmund Kelly the Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses that holds its place in occult literature.
The Lost Books of the Bible and The Forgotten Books of Eden
The Lost Books of the Bible and The Forgotten Books of Eden - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lost Books of the Bible and The Forgotten Books of Eden write by Rutherford Hayes Platt. This book was released on 1927. The Lost Books of the Bible and The Forgotten Books of Eden available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Presented here are two volumes of apocryphal writings reflecting the life and time of the Old and New Testaments. Stories told by contemporary fiction writers of historical Bible times in fascinating and beautiful style.
The Aleppo Codex
The Aleppo Codex - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Aleppo Codex write by Matti Friedman. This book was released on 2013-05-14. The Aleppo Codex available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the 2014 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature A thousand years ago, the most perfect copy of the Hebrew Bible was written. It was kept safe through one upheaval after another in the Middle East, and by the 1940s it was housed in a dark grotto in Aleppo, Syria, and had become known around the world as the Aleppo Codex. Journalist Matti Friedman’s true-life detective story traces how this precious manuscript was smuggled from its hiding place in Syria into the newly founded state of Israel and how and why many of its most sacred and valuable pages went missing. It’s a tale that involves grizzled secret agents, pious clergymen, shrewd antiquities collectors, and highly placed national figures who, as it turns out, would do anything to get their hands on an ancient, decaying book. What it reveals are uncomfortable truths about greed, state cover-ups, and the fascinating role of historical treasures in creating a national identity.
