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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 351

Dead Sea Scrolls

Tefillin from around 2,000 years ago in the laboratories of the Israel Antiquities Authority. (Emil Aladjem/IAA)
June 14, 2024, 10:24 am
Study: Ancient phylacteries’ natural leather color illustrates evolution of Jewish law
Analysis of 2,000-year-old tefillin found in Judean Desert caves shows no dye was used in their construction; deep black is mandated by contemporary Jewish Law
By Gavriel Fiske
A section of the Herculaneum Scrolls that was successfully read by the Vesuvius Challenge contestants. (Vesuvius Challenge)
February 16, 2024, 4:17 pm
In breakthrough, parts of Herculaneum scroll, buried by Vesuvius eruption, deciphered
Three students crack previously unreadable ancient philosophical text with machine learning software developed to read damaged Dead Sea Scrolls
By Ariella Oldfield
Section of the Pesher Habakkuk scroll, as displayed in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. (Wikipedia Commons)
September 24, 2023, 11:41 am
First recorded evidence of Yom Kippur depicts day of affliction as sectarian struggle
Prof. Yonatan Adler, author of ‘The Origins of Judaism,’ cites dramatic passage from the Dead Sea Scrolls that shows Hasmonean-era jostling for religious authority
By Gavriel Fiske
Archaeologists carefully remove the swords from the entrance of the cave where they were discovered in the Judean desert. (Emil Aladjem/IAA)
September 7, 2023, 2:10 am
Crack unit of rock-climbing archaeologists claims success in curbing antiquities theft
Six years into wide-scale Judean Desert cave survey operation, few Dead Sea Scrolls fragments are found. But the Land of Israel’s historical picture is ever more in focus, says IAA
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, right, is shown the Codex Valmadonna I book by, from left, President of Board of Deputies of British Jews Vivian Wineman, Chairman of Ostro Minerals Schweiz AG Maurice Ostro and UK Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks at a reception to mark the Diamond Jubilee in London, February 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, Pool)
From the WebSeptember 11, 2022, 2:19 pm
Week’s best: Queen’s complex bond with Jews and King Charles III’s ties to Israel
PLUS: Who is new UK PM Liz Truss? * Horovitz op-ed on deadly crime in the Arab community * First Temple-era ‘Dead Sea Scroll’? * Podcast: Jewy-American author Elyssa Friedland
The Damascus Document Scroll, found in Cave 4 at Qumran (Library of Congress / Wikipedia)
September 28, 2021, 11:23 pm
Ancient text said to solve mystery of why Dead Sea Scrolls were placed in Qumran
Israeli researchers believe 1,000-year-old document from Cairo Geniza shows site hosted an annual event where Essene sect gathered, bringing religious scriptures they left behind
By ToI Staff
The Dead Sea scrolls at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, November 5, 2018. (Mendy Hechtman/Flash90)
April 22, 2021, 9:54 pm
Doing what no human eye can, AI reveals secrets of Dead Sea Scroll’s creation
Computers analyzing tiny details of famous Isaiah Scroll spot different styles indicating 2 scribes, and opening new avenues into understanding origins of ancient documents
By Stuart Winer
Sieving finds at the entrance to Muraba‘at Cave. (Yoli Schwartz, Israel Antiquities Authority)
March 16, 2021, 5:26 pm
Dead Sea scroll discovery brings tantalizing prospect of more yet to be found
With another 20 promising caves to be excavated — and 25% more of the Judean Desert still to be surveyed — stunning finds in Cave of Horror unlikely to be the last
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
The Daily Briefing
March 16, 2021, 4:08 pm
Podcast: Daily Briefing Mar. 16 – The daring mission to save Dead Sea Scrolls
Tune in Sunday through Thursday to hear ToI editors and reporters quickly catch you up on what’s important today
By ToI Staff
Archaeologists Hagay Hamer and Oriah Amichai sieving finds at the entrance to the Cave of Horror. (Eitan Klein, Israel Antiquities Authority)
March 16, 2021, 9:00 am
Bible scroll fragments among dazzling artifacts found in Dead Sea Cave of Horror
Parts of books of Nahum and Zechariah, world’s oldest woven basket, 6,000-year-old mummified child, Bar Kochba Revolt coins among stunning finds from daring Judean Desert rescue op
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Hershel Shanks, editor of Biblical Archaeology Review, talks about the ancient inscriptions on a first-century stone burial box that refer to Jesus of Nazareth, during a press conference at a Washington hotel, Monday, Oct. 21, 2002. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
February 12, 2021, 5:07 am
Hershel Shanks, popularizer of biblical archaeology, dies at 90
Inspired by visit to Jerusalem, Washington lawyer made the stories of Middle East archeology accessible to the masses
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Norman Golb at work in his University of Chicago office. (Courtesy of the University of Chicago via JTA)
January 22, 2021, 1:41 pm
Norman Golb, pioneering Dead Sea Scrolls and Jewish history scholar, dies at 92
Academic, who taught at the University of Chicago, upended study of the scrolls with his thesis that they were authored by multiple sects
By Gabe Friedman
Archaeologist Joe Uziel cleans the newly uncovered Western Wall courses, located under Wilson's Arch in the Jerusalem Old City, October 2017. (Yaniv Berman/Israel Antiquities Authority)
July 28, 2020, 1:49 pm
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By ToI Staff
Jeremiah Scroll from the IAA's Dead Sea Scrolls collection. (Shai Halevi, Courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority)
June 2, 2020, 6:24 pm
Pioneering DNA study reveals not all Dead Sea Scrolls are from Dead Sea
Breakthrough paleogenomic analysis of ancient parchment helps prove textual evolution in 2 versions of Book of Jeremiah in 2nd Temple era
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Left: naked eye vs Right: multispectral imaging. A lamed (the letter 'L' in Hebrew) is written on the left side of the fragment and the Hebrew word 'Shabbat' is visible in the upper right hand corner. (© Copyright The University of Manchester)
May 20, 2020, 10:08 am
‘Shabbat’ revealed: UK’s ‘blank’ Dead Sea Scroll fragments yield a holy surprise
The University of Manchester’s Reed Collection was just a pile of 2,000-year-old leather scraps from Qumran — until Prof. Joan Taylor spotted one ghostly letter, then another…
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
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