Personalities · 13 · Ezra
Otto Rubensohn
In the early 1900s, this classical archaeologist unearthed papyri on an island at the Nile's First Cataract that transformed our understanding of the Bible's formation.
A dig that changed biblical studies.
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The island, Elephantine, lies near today's Aswan Dam.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 208
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