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  • (UK) British Library Makes Ancient Religious Texts Available Online

    From Jan Meisels Allen janmallen@att.net@21:1/5 to All on Thu Sep 26 20:00:25 2019
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    The British Library, has placed some its most religious ancient text online-250-- for general public free access. The collection is "Discovering Sacred Texts" includes texts for Jews, including copies of the Talmud that escaped the burnings from the Middle Ages, the first complete Mishnah and
    the Gastner Bible thought to have been created in Egypt around 10 Century
    C.E.

    To view the collection, Discovering Sacred Texts go to: https://www.bl.uk/projects/discovering-sacred-texts

    To read more about this see: https://tinyurl.com/y2qc2d2c
    Original url: https://www.jewishpress.com/news/jewish-news/worlds-most-ancient-religious-texts-made-available-online-to-public-at-the-british-library/2019/09/25/

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