is a forgery unless Monsieur Ganneau did it!”ĭershowitz’s own obsession with the Shapira manuscript began as something of a lark. “Although I am not yet convinced that the M.s. “I do not think that I will be able to survive this shame,” he wrote. But in a letter to Ginsburg, Shapira professed his innocence, and pointed the finger at his old nemesis. Sharp-Eye-Ra,” with forger’s ink still dripping from his finger. Still, for some, his Jewish origins rendered him suspicious.Īfter the British Museum issued its damning verdict on the Deuteronomy fragments, the satirical magazine Punch ran a cartoon showing the museum’s expert, Christian David Ginsburg, apprehending a stereotypically hooknosed “Mr. By the time he announced the Deuteronomy fragments, he had sold some 250 apparently genuine ones to the British Museum. In 1873, after Shapira sold a large collection of newly “discovered” Moabite pottery to the German government, Clermont-Ganneau publicly denounced them - correctly - as “false from beginning to end.”īy 1883, Shapira had re-established himself as a respected dealer of antique Hebrew manuscripts. The showdown with Clermont-Ganneau was not the first time the two men had tangled. There is growing evidence that MDMA - the illegal drug known as Ecstasy or Molly - can significantly lessen or even eliminate symptoms of PTSD when the treatment is paired with talk therapy.TikTok choreography, dancing umpires, a ballet-trained first-base coach: The Savannah Bananas, a collegiate summer league baseball team, has amassed a following by leaning into entertainment.
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