Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Heard, Christopher" <Christopher.Heard AT pepperdine.edu>]

_Modern_ torah scrolls are often one large scroll, but does anybody  
here know when that format originated? (I'm asking you because I  
don't know.) When is the earliest attested single scroll with the  
entire Torah? If I remember correctly, the DSS Torah scrolls are by  
separate books. There is probably a manufacturing threshold sometime  
in history when scroll-making technology became good/robust enough to  
support the entire Torah on a single scroll, but how far back does  
that go?

TIA (תודה in advance),
Chris

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