‘World’s oldest’ Torah scroll found in Italian archive
Officials at University of Bologna say the document was originally examined by a university librarian in 1889 and dated as having been written during the 17th century.
But a recent re-evaluation of the scroll by university Professor of Hebrew, Mauro Perani, discovered that the scroll was written in oriental Babylonian tradition, which makes it very old.
Officials also say the scroll contains text “features” that were later “forbidden” by Maimonides in the 12th century.