How did the Dead Sea Scrolls—documents written on parchment, papyrus and bronze— survive almost 2,000 years in caves near the Dead Sea? Researchers have been intrigued, in particular, by one document ...
What does a sacred text go through before it is turned into a book? The cliffs in the Judean Desert are made up of pale limestone and they look over the shore where the salt covers the ground and the ...
An unfinished pile of tefillin, made from cow leather are ready for cleaning at Or Ha'tora tefillin workshop, in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish town of Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv, Israel. AP The MTA wants to ...
The scrolls newly discovered are written entirely in Greek except for God’s name, which is represented in Hebrew as the tetragrammaton (YHWH). Qumran caves near the Dead Sea. (photo: Tamarah via ...
A new study is demonstrating how ancient animal DNA, extracted from Dead Sea Scroll parchments, can help with piecing together the jigsaw puzzle of disparate fragments found in the Judean desert. It's ...
Two researchers from Tel Aviv University’s School of Computer Science have unveiled a new computational method that could transform the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The tool is designed to enable ...
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