Would a Scholar Really Be Pinching an 1,000-Year-Old Document Like That?

And I mean "pinching" literally.

Illuminating Jewish Life in a Muslim Empire

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Prof. Haggai Ben-Shammai of the National Library of Israel, which obtained 29 handwritten texts from the 11th century.

By ISABEL KERSHNER

Published: January 14, 2013