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28 May 2013 Last updated at 20:16
'World's oldest Torah' scroll found in ItalyTorah scroll found in University of Bologna
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The University of Bologna in Italy has found what it says may be the oldest complete
scroll of Judaism's most important text, the Torah.The scroll was in the university library
but had been mislabelled, a professor at the university says.It was previously thought
the scroll was no more that a few hundred years old.
However, after carbon dating tests, the university has said the text may have been
written more than 850 years ago.
The university's Professor of Hebrew Mauro Perani says this would make it the oldest
complete text of the Torah known to exist, and an object of extraordinary worth.
The university says that in 1889 one of its librarians, Leonello Modona, had examined
the scroll and dated it to the 17th Century.However, when Prof Perani recently re-
examined the scroll, he realised the script used was that of the oriental Babylonian
tradition, meaning that the scroll must be extremely old. Another reason for the dating
is that the text has many features forbidden in later copies under rules laid down by the
scholar Maimonides in the 12th Century, the university says.
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India's ancient university returns to life By Yojana Sharma
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Nalanda is emerging from the ruins as an image of India's rising power
It was an eminent centre of learning long before Oxford, Cambridge and Europe's
oldest university Bologna were founded.
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Nalanda University in northern India drew scholars from all over Asia, surviving for
hundreds of years before being destroyed by invaders in 1193.
The idea of Nalanda as an international centre of learning is being revived by a
group of statesmen and scholars led by the Nobel prize winning economist,
Amartya Sen, The group wants to establish a new world-class residential university
with top students and researchers from around the world, on a site close to ruins of
the ancient Buddhist institution in the Indian state of Bihar.
The new Nalanda International University will focus on the humanities, economics
and management, Asian integration, sustainable development and oriental
languages.
Old foundations
But building a top university from scratch, let alone one in a poor under-developed
part of India, is a tall order. Some doubt that an international university can
flourish in such an under-developed area.
"Are top students and faculty going to be attracted to rural Bihar?" says Philip
Altbach, director of the Centre for International Higher Education at Boston College
in the United States.
Read More.......
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7 Wonders of India: Nalanda University
Located 55 miles from Patna in Bihar, Nalanda was the largest residential centre of
learning in the world with a nine-storeyed library. The monasteries are built in old
Kushan architectural style, in a row of cells around a courtyard. It was the Buddhist
centre of learning from 427 to 1197 CE partly under the Pala Empire. It is believed that
Buddha visited Nalanda during his last tour through Magadha, and it was there that
Sariputta uttered his lion's roar, affirming his faith in the Buddha. University of Nalanda
was established in 450 CE under the patronage of the Gupta emperors, notably Kumara
Gupta. Nava Nalanda Mahavihara is devoted to the study and research in Pali Literature
and Buddhism.
28 May 2013 Last updated at 20:16
'World's oldest Torah' scroll found in ItalyTorah scroll found in University of Bologna
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/67855000/jpg/_67855815_torah.jpg
library This Torah scroll may be more than 850 years old
CECQtoj1xl0
The University of Bologna in Italy has found what it says may be the oldest complete
scroll of Judaism's most important text, the Torah.The scroll was in the university library
but had been mislabelled, a professor at the university says.It was previously thought
the scroll was no more that a few hundred years old.
However, after carbon dating tests, the university has said the text may have been
written more than 850 years ago.
The university's Professor of Hebrew Mauro Perani says this would make it the oldest
complete text of the Torah known to exist, and an object of extraordinary worth.
The university says that in 1889 one of its librarians, Leonello Modona, had examined
the scroll and dated it to the 17th Century.However, when Prof Perani recently re-
examined the scroll, he realised the script used was that of the oriental Babylonian
tradition, meaning that the scroll must be extremely old. Another reason for the dating
is that the text has many features forbidden in later copies under rules laid down by the
scholar Maimonides in the 12th Century, the university says.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22697098
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India's ancient university returns to life By Yojana Sharma
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/67848000/jpg/_67848085_nalanda624.jpg
Nalanda is emerging from the ruins as an image of India's rising power
It was an eminent centre of learning long before Oxford, Cambridge and Europe's
oldest university Bologna were founded.
VIDEO ON LINK.........http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22160989
Nalanda University in northern India drew scholars from all over Asia, surviving for
hundreds of years before being destroyed by invaders in 1193.
The idea of Nalanda as an international centre of learning is being revived by a
group of statesmen and scholars led by the Nobel prize winning economist,
Amartya Sen, The group wants to establish a new world-class residential university
with top students and researchers from around the world, on a site close to ruins of
the ancient Buddhist institution in the Indian state of Bihar.
The new Nalanda International University will focus on the humanities, economics
and management, Asian integration, sustainable development and oriental
languages.
Old foundations
But building a top university from scratch, let alone one in a poor under-developed
part of India, is a tall order. Some doubt that an international university can
flourish in such an under-developed area.
"Are top students and faculty going to be attracted to rural Bihar?" says Philip
Altbach, director of the Centre for International Higher Education at Boston College
in the United States.
Read More.......
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22160989
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k7UR9UEY79k
7 Wonders of India: Nalanda University
Located 55 miles from Patna in Bihar, Nalanda was the largest residential centre of
learning in the world with a nine-storeyed library. The monasteries are built in old
Kushan architectural style, in a row of cells around a courtyard. It was the Buddhist
centre of learning from 427 to 1197 CE partly under the Pala Empire. It is believed that
Buddha visited Nalanda during his last tour through Magadha, and it was there that
Sariputta uttered his lion's roar, affirming his faith in the Buddha. University of Nalanda
was established in 450 CE under the patronage of the Gupta emperors, notably Kumara
Gupta. Nava Nalanda Mahavihara is devoted to the study and research in Pali Literature
and Buddhism.