Biblical Hebrew Forum

["JP vd Giessen" <jpvdgiessen AT freeler.nl>]

Hi all,

I owns a Torah-scroll 10 cm height and about 5 metres long.
Script is very small but readable. Average height of the script is 1.2
millimeters.
But it is not easy in use for finding a certain text because of the rolling of
the scroll, 5 metres is very long  ;)

By the way it is handwritten on parchment-like paper.

Jan Pieter van de Giessen
Barneveld, Netherlands 

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 15:18:34 -0400, Karyn Traphagen wrote
> On Aug 17, 2005, at 3:11 PM, Joseph I. Lauer wrote:
> 
> >  I have seen (and held) a number of much smaller Torah scrolls
> > (including one owned by my son's father-in-law) that could easily  
> > fit in one
> > or two hands.  The script used in such scrolls is, of course, very  
> > small.
> > It is thus easy to imagine such single scrolls being used long ago  
> > for both
> > study of the Torah and in religious services.
> 
> I am curious as to the medium for these scrolls. Are the small  
> scrolls you describe written on paper or on parchment (animal skin)? 
>  Were they hand-lettered?
> 
> Karyn