From: "Heard, Christopher" <Christopher.Heard AT pepperdine.edu>
To: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] 5 scrolls or 1
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 16:21:59 -0700
_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?