Tikvah
Subscribe
MosaicImage of Mosaic
Editor's Pick

August 21, 2018

An Ancient Village Appears to Have Been a Center for the Production of Gazelle-Hide Torah Scrolls

Confirming the evidence of the Talmud.

The Talmud requires that Torah scrolls be written on parchment made from the hide of a kosher animal, and notes that the hides of gazelles were particularly prized for this purpose. Armed with this information, archaeologists made sense of a recent finding in the Galilean village of Shikhin (modern-day Shukha), as Philippe Bohstrom writes. (Free registration may be required.)

Subscribe to Continue Reading

Get the best Jewish ideas and conversations. Subscribe to Tikvah Ideas All Access for $12/month

Login or Subscribe
Save

August 21, 2018

  1. The Dangers of Diplomacy with Iran

    Avoid the yap trap.

  2. Israel’s Paradoxical Goals in Gaza

    Neither stability nor prosperity is consistent with Hamas’s aims.

  3. Don’t Let Anti-Discrimination Laws Become a Weapon against Religious Liberty and Common Sense

    Investigating a women’s shelter for barring entry to a man.

  4. In Defense of In-Marriage, Community, and Particularism

    Escape from the ghetto of one.

  5. An Ancient Village Appears to Have Been a Center for the Production of Gazelle-Hide Torah Scrolls

    Confirming the evidence of the Talmud.