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The New Brunswick Theological Seminary owns a complete Torah scroll, written in Egypt during the 17th-century (per C-14 dating). While the basic text of each Torah scroll is essentially the same, each scribe wrote, aligned, and formatted the text differently. I seek two students who can assist me to investigate the various textual and paratextual features of this scroll: paragraphing, dotted letters, large and small letters, use or non-use of tagin (crownlets), layout of the two poems (Exodus 15 and Deuteronomy 32), inverted nunin (in Numbers 10), etc. The research will eventuate in a scholarly article detailing all of these features, as a model for other scholars analyzing other extant old Torah scrolls.
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