On February 9, 1767, just a few weeks before the Jewish holiday of Purim, a Jewish teen in Rome celebrated her 14th birthday by putting the final touches on a parchment scroll. Joining the ranks of only some two dozen known female scribes through the mid-19th century, Luna Ambron had just completed writing a copy of Megillat Esther, the biblical Book of Esther, which Jews traditionally read from to mark the festival. Accompanying the scroll was a separate blessing sheet, also written by Ambron