The sister of the earliest complete Old Testament has been discovered, with the scribe also being identified by a young researcher, it was reported in June.
Tyndale House Research Associate Dr Kim Phillips identified the writing style of Samuel ben Jacob in newly published digitised photographs of a manuscript from the Firkowich collection in the depths of the National Library of Russia archives in St Petersburg.
Locked away from the eyes of interested researchers for a number of years, the microfilms were posted online by the National Library of Israel. Due to painstaking work on the unusual practices of this scribe, Dr Phillips identified Samuel ben Jacob’s work, despite there not being any identifying colophon, or signed publication note, on the text.
