WYRICK, D. A Representation of the Two Stones with the Characters Inscribed Upon Them

(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

Near Newark, Ohio

c.1860

Eight illustrations

A peculiar work dealing with ancient stones with Hebrew inscriptions including an abridgment of the Ten Commandments unearthed in a sinkhole in North America by the the author during a dig in 1860. At a loss to explain his find, Wyrick declares; “Would it not require a very profound scholar in Hebrew to make such an abridgment of the Hebrew Decalogue with foreign characters...?”