Editing Torah scroll (section)

===Single-scroll Pentateuch===
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The researchers working on the En-Gedi Scroll have concluded that by the fourth century CE, there was no halakhic rule yet prescribing that scrolls used for liturgical purposes must contain the entire Pentateuch.<ref name=ANET>{{cite journal |last= Rendsburg |first= Gary A. |author-link= Gary A. Rendsburg |title= The World's Oldest Torah Scrolls |journal=[[ANE Today]] |date= March 2018 |volume= VI |number= 3 |publisher=[[American School of Oriental Research]] (ASOR) |url= http://www.asor.org/anetoday/2018/03/Worlds-Oldest-Torah-Scrolls |access-date=2 August 2019 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180319040625/http://www.asor.org/anetoday/2018/03/Worlds-Oldest-Torah-Scrolls |archive-date= 19 March 2018}}</ref> As of 2018, no other statements regarding when this rule came into being could be made with any degree of certainty.<ref name=ANET/> It must be noted that, while the physically determined date for the scroll points to the 3rd or 4th centuries, its text has been palaeographically dated by [[Ada Yardeni]] to the first century CE or the early second at the latest, a discrepancy not uncommon in this field, which could push back in time the entire discussion.<ref name=AY16>[[Ada Yardeni |Yardeni, Ada]]. "Appendix: Palaeographic Description". In Michael Segal, [[Emanuel Tov]], William Brent Seales, Clifford Seth Parker, Pnina Shor, Yosef Porath: [https://openscholar.huji.ac.il/sites/default/files/he_bible_project/files/m._segal1.1.pdf "An Early Leviticus Scroll from En Gedi: Preliminary Publication"] (PDF). ''Textus'' '''26''' (2016). Accessed 10 March 2024</ref>