I have finally created a manuscript that I had been wanting to create for some time: a Paleo-Hebrew version of the Shema that is contained in a mezzuzah. I wrote on the front and the back, but only got as far as the one passage in Deuteronomy 6:4-9. The true Shema also contains Deuteronomy 11:13-21 and Numbers 15:37-41. Click
here to see what the Shema normally looks like today.
Here is the front side of the manuscript.
Here is the back:
Here is a close-up of the text:
Like my Psalm 119 scroll, I used the Tel Dan script but this time I left spaces between the lines and increased the length of the tails for the characters that go below the line. For those interested, that would be
bet,
mem,
nun, and
kaph. I think it resulted in a more beautiful style.
