Listen in as Eve Harow interviews Professor Lawrence Schiffmanis, one of the world’s experts on the most important archaeological discovery of the 20th Century, the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Jewish beauty pageant contestants, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and a ban on Shawarma.
Marchers protested UNESCO's effort to erase Judaism from the Jewish people's holiest sites.
The PA told UNESCO that the Dead Sea Scrolls are part of THEIR heritage!
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Bernard Shapero said that “the whole exhibition shows the positive side of Judaism. There’s no Holocaust material or anti-Semitic material, which forms a large part of collecting in this field.”
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"The money that modern forgers and dealers can make on modern forgeries is astronomical, consistently in the five and six figure range. The motivation is strong."
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The plan’s first excavation is currently underway in the Cave of the Skulls in Nahal Tse'elim, with the assistance of numerous volunteers.
Modern technology has led experts to decipher a burnt scroll as the first chapter of Leviticus.
The Declaration of Independence is the first document reflecting Jewish sovereignty since the time of the Hashmonean kingdom.
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." (Genesis 1:1)
Digging for the past sometimes is possible by simple looking at what already has been found.
Researchers have revealed three rare 2,000-year-old fabrics that were dyed with an extract and in prestigious colors mentioned in Jewish sources.
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Google introduced a new online historical collection of digitized material, highlighting several Jewish themes, events and institutional partners in its first wave of exhibits.
On Saturday, the Franklin Institute will launch its exhibition “Dead Sea Scrolls: Life and Faith in Ancient Times.” The collection consists of more than 600 figurines, altars, coins, pottery, menorahs, bone boxes, and incense burners, and a giant stone from the Wailing Wall. The exhibition was created in cooperation with the Israeli Antiquities Authority, the […]
