by hadassah | Feb 4, 2024 | Dead Sea Scrolls
Why is it important to study the Dead Sea Scrolls? Prof. Lawrence H. Schiffman. Produced by Down Low Pictures for COJS. You can literally hold in your hands a library from 2,000 years ago and find out what kind of books stood in the core of the inter-Jewish...
by hadassah | Sep 4, 2016 | Discovery and Acquisition
Discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls The Scrolls were discovered not by the Bedouin boy, as everyone says, but in the Cairo Genizah in the 1860s and on. In 1947, the Bedouin boy discovered the “first” seven scrolls. Prof. Lawrence H. Schiffman,...
by hadassah | Sep 4, 2016 | Identification of the Sect
The Dead Sea Sect The Dead Sea Sect was a group of Jews who broke off from the Temple establishment, leaving Jerusalem in about 152 BCE when Jonathan the Maccabee took over as high priest. Prof. Lawrence H. Schiffman, New York University What do you want to...
by hadassah | Sep 4, 2016 | Discovery and Acquisition
The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Media The media assumed that the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls would solve problems related to Christianity, but the Scrolls are actually biblical and Second Temple Jewish texts. Prof. Lawrence H. Schiffman, New York University...
by hadassah | Sep 1, 2016 | Decline of Sectarianism, Identification of the Sect
The Scrolls and Christianity There is still a popular conception that the Dead Sea Scrolls can solve the problem of early Christianity, but that prevents us from learning about the rise of Christianity through these Jewish texts. Prof. Lawrence H....
