Not long after archaeologists confirmed the location of the cave where Bedouin shepherds had found the first of the Dead Sea Scrolls, an archaeological expedition was organized to excavate the nearby site known as Khirbet Qumran, the ruins of Qumran. Directed by a Dominican father, Roland de Vaux, the excavation and survey was sponsored by […]
In a letter to the editor in Queries & Comments, BAR 18-06, Jerusalem guide Walter Zanger questions whether the installations found in the Jewish Quarter excavations directed by the late Nahman Avigad were really mikva’ot (ritual purification baths, singular mikveh), as they were denominated in an article on those excavations.a According to Zanger, only one […]
A recently published fragment among the Dead Sea Scrolls contains beatitudes with some striking similarities to the beatitudes in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-3–12) and in the Sermon on the Plain (Luke 6-20–23)—and also some important differences. The fragment was published in 1991 by Emile Puech,a my colleague at the École Biblique in […]
Primary sources Sifre Deuteronomy 351- The Antiquity of the Concept of Oral Law Mishnah Rosh ha-Shanah 1-1-9- The Fixing of the Calendar Tosefta Rosh ha-Shanah 1-1-14- More on the Fixing of the Calendar The Temple Scroll LVI-LVII- The Law of the King (Martinez) Secondary sources Calendar Controversies, Lawrence H. Schiffman, Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls, […]
Mikhail Dercacz, a 73-year-old Queens resident, had his citizenship revoked last Thursday by a federal judge who ruled Dercacz had concealed his role as a Ukrainian policeman who had assisted the Nazis in persecuting Jews when he applied for admission to the United States in 1949 and for citizenship in 1954. According to the Office […]
Cabinet Approves Participation of Four European Countries in the Sinai Peacekeeping Force, JTA, Feb. 1, 1982. Israeli Forces Capture Three Terrorists Who Attempted to Infiltrate the West Bank from Jordan, JTA, Feb. 1, 1982. Kirkpatrick Says Various Delegates at the UN Are Concerned that There Are Too Many Jews at the U.S. Mission, JTA, Feb. […]
Egyptian Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Abed Rab El-Nabi Hafez arrived in Israel today at the head of a delegation of senior military officers, for a five-day official visit. He is returning the visit to Egypt by Israeli Chief of Staff Gen. Rafael Eitan last December. The arrangements for the visit are similar to those […]
Issa Harel, former head of the Mossad and the Israeli intelligence and security services for the first 15 years of Israel’s history, has confirmed that it was the Mossad which passed on to U.S. intelligence the details of Nikita Khrushchev’s famous 1956 speech denouncing the previous Stalin regime. Israel has frequently been rumored to have […]
A bomb which exploded outside the home of Vienna Chief Rabbi Dr. Bela Akiba Eisenberg last Friday night was described by police as the work of amateurs. No one was injured in the attack on the apartment which was unoccupied at the time, but the explosion blew the door off its hinges and shattered several […]
Arab Ambassador in Paris and representatives of the Arab League have launched an attack against one of President Francois Mitterrand’s Jewish advisors, Jacques Attali, accusing him of lacking objectivity because of his “pro-Zionist activities.” The attack was formally launched last week by Arab League representative Mohammed Yazid who told a press conference here that Attali’s […]