Posts Tagged: Dead Sea Scrolls
Cave of Horror: Fresh Fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls Echo Dramatic Human Stories
On Tuesday news broke of the discovery of fresh fragments of a nearly 2,000-year-old scroll in Israel. The fragments were said to come from the...
New Piece of Dead Sea Scrolls Jigsaw Discovered After 60 years
Israeli archaeologists racing against treasure hunters to search caves near the Dead Sea have discovered a trove of artifacts, including fragments of a biblical text,...
Hides That Reveal: DNA Helps Scholars Divine Dead Sea Scrolls
Genetic sampling of the Dead Sea Scrolls has tested understandings that the 2,000-year-old artifacts were the work of a fringe Jewish sect, and shed light...
Dead Sea Scrolls at Museum of Bible in Washington Discovered to Be Forgeries
JNS.org - What was thought to be 16 Dead Sea Scroll fragments housed at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC, were discovered to...
The Dead Sea Scrolls Monument
In 1946 or 1947 -- no one knows for certain -- a Bedouin goatherd nicknamed Muhammad the Wolf led his flock around the cliffs lining...
US Bible Museum Says Five Dead Sea Scrolls Fragments Fake
The Museum of the Bible in Washington on Monday said five of its artifacts thought to be part of the Dead Sea Scrolls were fake...
Germany Refuses to Recognize Dead Sea Scrolls as Israeli Property, Museum Exhibit Nixed
JNS.org - A Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit scheduled to take place in 2019 at the Bible Museum in Frankfurt has been cancelled after the German government...
In Surprise Discovery, Israeli Archaeologists Uncover 12th Dead Sea Scrolls Cave
JNS.org - In a surprise discovery, Israeli archaeologists have uncovered a 12th cave that once held portions of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Hebrew University archaeologists Dr. Oren...
This Land Is Whose Land?
In yet another compulsive denial of Jewish history in the land of Israel, the Palestinian Authority recently announced its intention to claim ownership rights to...
Report: Palestinians to Demand ‘Return’ of Dead Sea Scrolls
JNS.org - The Palestinian Authority is reportedly preparing to demand that the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) force Israel to “return” the Dead...
Dead Sea Scrolls to Be Digitized in New German-Funded Israeli Project
JNS.org - Israeli scientists and scholars are set to embark on a new collaborative research partnership to create a dynamic virtual work environment for the study...
Dead Sea Scrolls Come to California
JNS.org - The California Science Center is hosting a limited-time exhibition of the Dead Sea Scrolls, considered to be the most significant archaeological find of the...
Archaeologists Decipher Oldest Parchment Writing Since Dead Sea Scrolls
JNS.org - Israeli archaeologists have deciphered writing on a charred parchment that they are describing as the oldest text found since the Dead Sea Scrolls. The script written...
Judaism is a Religion of Merit, Not Monarchies
One of the most important Jewish contributions to our understanding of leadership is its early insistence of what, in the eighteenth century, Montesquieu called "the...
