Shaphan the Scribe and the Jewish Question: Or, How Not to Find the Elephant in the Room

Shaphan the Scribe and the Jewish Question: Or, How Not to Find the Elephant in the Room

In a recent article in Haaretz, Ofri Ilany argued that Shaphan the Scribe, a figure who lived during the region of Josiah, King of Judah in the late 7th century BCE, is perhaps the most important figure in Jewish history, and in fact invented…

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