Wednesday, December 28, 2022
A 700-year-old Jewish holy book was confiscated in Turkey
A copy of the Jewish holy book Torah, which dates back to around 700 years, was seized by provincial gendarmerie teams in Bulancak city of Giresun province, northern Turkey, Anadolu Agency reported.
Acting on a tip about the sale of the manuscript, gendarmerie teams detained a person who wanted to sell the historical relic for 1.5 million dollars. During the interrogation at the Regional Gendarmerie Command, it was learned that the suspect had brought the 700-year-old Torah from Istanbul to Giresun to sell. It is clarified where the accused got the valuable relic. It is believed to have been stolen from a synagogue in Istanbul.
It was reported that the Torah manuscript was handed over to the directorate of the Giresun Museum.
Torah in Hebrew means "teaching", "law". It is a concept in Judaism covering traditional religious law.
In a narrow sense, the Torah corresponds to the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Bible. Besides these, Rabbinical Judaism refers to the Torah and the Oral Law, considered a tradition with the authority and antiquity of the Pentateuch, which, however, for centuries was transmitted only orally from generation to generation, while it was fixed in the written texts of the Talmud and Midrash.
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