As Israeli rescue teams were rummaging through the rubble in the Turkish city of Antakya after last week's devastating earthquake in hopes of finding survivors trapped underneath, a local elderly Jewish man approached them holding something unique in his hands — two centuries-old Book of Esther scrolls that were kept in the local synagogue before the shock.Unlike many of the manuscript "discoveries" that have been coming out of Turkey, this looks real. From the photos, they do look like Esther scrolls and they do look old, perhaps centuries old.[...]
They aren't exactly ancient, but right now we'll take any good news coming from Turkey.
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