It’s not just a display of the scrolls, which of course in and of themselves would be powerful,” but other “wow objects” ...

A Torah scroll that was written and dedicated to a synagogue that will be built on the Temple Mount was brought for safekeeping at the Karlin Yeshiva in the haredi city of Modi'in Illit. The scroll ...

For just one year, the Museum of the Bible in Washington will host a rare exhibition of the Dead Sea Scrolls, which feature ...

The ancient Dead Sea Scrolls are continuing to provide researchers with surprising insights. A new chemical analysis of the Temple Scroll, the longest of the 2,000-year-old scrolls, has revealed a ...

Over the last two decades, the scrolls that are generally known as 4QReworked Pentateuch (4Q158; 364–367) have been major catalysts for discussions regarding the textual plurality of the Hebrew Bible.

Temple Emunah in Lexington recently celebrated the acquisition of a Sefer Haftarot, a hand-inscribed scroll best known for current use in the rite of passage to adulthood. “There are very few such ...

BEVERLY — A 200-year-old Czech Torah scroll that survived the Holocaust is coming to Beverly on Sunday, welcomed to Temple B'nai Abraham with a final lettering ceremony to mark the completion of its ...

In 1947, shepherds discovered the now-famed Dead Sea Scrolls in the Judaean Desert’s 11 Qumran Caves. While their exact genesis is somewhat contested, these ancient Jewish manuscripts (many of which ...

From a World War II warehouse in Prague to Port St. Lucie, a torah scroll has found a new home at Temple Beth EI Israel. This scroll, which features the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, is one of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Yigael Yadin has observed that Josephus in his Antiquities (AJ) and the author of the Temple Scroll (TS) of Qumran both present laws of the ...

Proton beams have shed new light on the origin of the longest of the Dead Sea Scrolls, suggesting its parchment was manufactured locally. According to a study carried out at the labs of the Italian ...