Sacred Texts
The scriptures at the heart of faiths — how they were written, preserved, and read.
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The Hebrew Bible was copied so carefully that scribes counted every letter
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The Dead Sea Scrolls are about a thousand years older than the next-oldest Hebrew Bibles
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The world's oldest dated printed book is a Buddhist scroll from 868 CE
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A kosher Torah scroll is handwritten by a scribe - all 304,805 letters
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23 Oct 4004 BC
26 Mar 1830
