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 | 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 | Jul 27, 2015 | Discovery and Acquisition
Discovery and Acquisition, 1947–1956, Lawrence H. Schiffman, Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia, 1994. The Dead Sea Scrolls were not discovered all at once in 1947. We have several accounts from antiquity and the Middle...
by hadassah | Jul 5, 2015 | Discovery and Acquisition
The Dead Sea Scrolls and the People Who Wrote Them, Frank Moore Cross, Biblical Archaeology Review (3:1), Mar 1977. After a quarter century of discovery and publication, the study of the manuscripts from the desert of Judah has entered a new, more mature phase....
by hadassah | Dec 18, 2008 | Discovery and Acquisition
Letter from Yigael Yadin Concerning the Purchase of the Scrolls, 1954 Letter from archaeologist Yigael Yadin, ex-Chief of Staff of the IDF informing Teddy Kollek in the Prime Minister’s Office that he had completed the purchase of some of the Dead Sea...
by hadassah | Dec 18, 2008 | American Jewish History, Discovery and Acquisition
Discovery and Acquisition The first Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in Cairo in 1896 by Solomon Schechter. In the attic of the Ben Ezra Synagogue, scholars uncovered a storehouse—or genizah—for old and unused manuscripts, now referred to as the Cairo genizah....
