Tag: parchment
Getting Under the Skin of Medieval Bible Mystery
Thousands of pocket bibles were made in the 13th century.. The origin of the parchment — often called ‘uterine vellum’ — has been a source of longstanding controversy. Until now...
The Parchment of Rebuke That Came Home
Rabbi Yitzchak Dovid Grossman examined the piece of Torah parchment, cut from a Torah scroll in an Eastern European synagogue, and used by a Luftwaffe officer to wrap his ID card during World War II.