by hadassah | Dec 16, 2021 | Introduction
The Fertile Crescent and Egypt Courtesy of Biblical Archaeology Society What do you want to know? Ask our AI widget and get answers from this website Create Account Contact...
by hadassah | Oct 19, 2021 | Introduction
Mad to See the Monuments, Steven W. Holloway, Bible Review (17:6) Dec. 2001. In August of 1847, the British Museum mounted the first major display of Assyrian antiquities in England. For a year, the public had pored over sketches from Austen Henry Layard’s...
by hadassah | Sep 11, 2016 | Introduction
What are the Dead Sea Scrolls? Prof. Lawrence H. Schiffman. Produced by Down Low Pictures for COJS. The Dead Sea Scrolls are 900 fragments of what were scrolls in antiquity, which constituted the library of a group of Jews who lived at the shore of the Dead...
by hadassah | Sep 4, 2016 | Introduction
What kinds of texts are found in the Dead Sea Scrolls? The Scrolls fall into three categories – books of the Hebrew scriptures, apocryphal literature and materials from the sectarians themselves. Prof. Lawrence H. Schiffman, New York University...
by hadassah | Sep 4, 2016 | Introduction
What We Learn from the Scrolls The richness of the inner debate of Judaism and the beautiful literature of the Second Temple period becomes clear through the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Prof. Lawrence H. Schiffman, New York University What do you want to...
by hadassah | Sep 1, 2016 | Introduction
What lessons can be learned from the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls? The real relevance of the Dead Sea Scrolls is not the Scrolls themselves, but a real understanding of Second Temple times. Prof. Lawrence H. Schiffman, New York University What do you...
