Decades after the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in desert caves, the ancient manuscripts are still offering surprises. Chemical analysis of the Temple Scroll, the longest of the scrolls, has ...

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.

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 ...

A team of researchers led by MIT's Admir Masic have used a non-invasive technique to determine why one of the famous Dead Sea Scrolls is so well-preserved. The analysis of the 2,000-year-old Temple ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...