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Originally Posted by dsvick
37 meters long!? Must have been a pretty big scroll bar on that one 
Actually, though, I have to wonder why they found it easier to make long scrolls like that as opposed to individual pages. |
good point . so I went looking and discovered this ....
A scroll is usually divided up into pages, which are sometimes
separate sheets of papyrus or parchment glued together at the edges. It still doesn't explain why they chose to join them side by side, rather than one side only as in a book - unless that revelation came later - perhaps it was originally thought a scroll on two small posts was easier to handle and also to store ...
