Institute to Get Ancient Bible Parchment

November 9, 2007 By REGAN E. DOHERTY, Associated Press Writer Institute to Get Ancient Bible Parchment (AP)

This undated photo made available by the Yad Ben Zvi Institute, shows a piece of an ancient parchment believed to be part of the most authoritative manuscript of the Hebrew Bible, the Aleppo Codex. The fragment, more than 1,000-years old, contains verses from the Book of Exodus describing the plagues in Egypt, including the words of Moses to Paraoh, "Let my people go, that they may serve me". Syrian family man Sam Sabbagh, held the fragment for six decades as a good luck charm after he picked it up, off the floor of a burned out synagogue in Aleppo, Syria in 1947. (AP Photo)

(AP) -- The family of man who held a fragment of a more than 1,000-year-old manuscript of the Hebrew Bible for six decades as a good luck charm will present it to a Jerusalem institute next week, officials said Thursday.



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