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Is a manuscript “forgery” really the oldest-ever Bible fragment?

Idan Dershowitz, a 38-year-old Israeli-American scholar at the University of Potsdam in Germany, marshals a range of archival, linguistic and literary evidence to argue that a manuscript of Deuteronomy, long dismissed as a fake, is actually an authentic ancient artifact. It’s a fascinating and controversial story. [1]