Added: 20th November 2008 Posted By:wehavehistory Views: 16 Comments:0
"These are the earliest copies of the Bible ever found," said Pnina Shor, head of treatment and conservation at the Antiquities Authority. "The Bible is sacred to us and to you and to all the monotheistic religions, and therefore [the scrolls] are national treasures and world treasures, and...
Added: 8th October 2008 Posted By:wehavehistory Views: 102 Comments:0
Excellent short docu-film covering the historic discovery of the Dead Sea scrolls in Israel. The Dead Sea Scrolls consist of roughly 1,000 documents, including texts from the Hebrew Bible, discovered between 1947 and 1979 in eleven caves in and around the Wadi Qumran (near the ruins of the...
Added: 29th August 2008 Posted By:israhitech Views: 110 Comments:0
NASA Scientists Help Israel Digitalize And Publish Dead Sea Scrolls On Internet - Scientists in Israel are taking digital photographs of thousands of fragments of the Dead Sea scrolls with the aim of making the 2,000-year-old documents available to the public and researchers on the Internet....
Added: 27th July 2008 Posted By:israelhistorian Views: 137 Comments:0
Who is Vendyl Jones? An excerpt from the 1998 documentary "DIGGING UP THE FUTURE" - Vendyl Jones was born on May 29, 1930, and grew up in Sudan, Texas. Vendyl Jones, noted Biblical scholar and archaeologist will be the recipient of the Annual Noah Award at the upcoming World Conference of...
Added: 13th July 2008 Posted By:wehavehistory Views: 58 Comments:0
Two sections of the "Great Isaiah Scroll", the most complete Dead Sea scroll ever found, went on public display on Tuesday at the Israel Musuem in Jerusalem. The Isaiah scroll is one of the original seven Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in 1947 in a cave near Qumran, northwest of the Dead Sea. Of the...