The last secret of the Dead Sea scrolls has been cracked. The 930 texts rocked the religious community when they were found ...
A 2,000-year-old code that once looked like random scratches on parchment has finally given up its secret, turning a handful of obscure Dead Sea fragments into a new window on one of antiquity’s most ...
For decades, one script embedded in the Dead Sea Scrolls resisted all efforts to unlock its meaning. Known as Cryptic B, the ...
Researchers are using a very modern tool to transcribe and read hundreds of thousands of medieval manuscripts from the lost ...
A researcher has solved one of the longstanding riddles of the Dead Sea Scrolls by deciphering a hidden script within the famous texts.
Here's what you need to know about playing this festive Hanukkah activity. A dreidel is a spinning top with four sides, each inscribed with a letter of the Hebrew alphabet. The Hebrew letters ...
A new research project by Israeli and international scholars has digitally transcribed the texts featured in hundreds of thousands of fragments from the celebrated Cairo Geniza, as well as thousands ...
A South African neo-Nazi facing imminent deportation from Australia after attending an anti-Semitic rally has a Jewish tattoo emblazoned on his arm. Engineer Matthew Gruter was one of 60 demonstrators ...
The name Palestine occupies an extraordinarily politicized position in the study of Near Eastern ethnonyms and toponyms. Its contested etymology has long ceased to be a matter of neutral philology; it ...
A special officer to the chief minister lodged a report after coming across a 14-second video on Threads showing a silver pickup truck with a sticker showing Hebrew script. Melaka police have recorded ...
A coin minted by Jewish rebels just before the destruction of the Second Temple – an event Jesus predicted in the Gospels – has been unearthed in Jerusalem. The 2,000-year-old artifact was found at ...
Qumran Caves, The Judean Desert. Credit: SuperJew / CC BY-SA 3.0 Two Israeli scholars have revealed the discovery of a rare four-line Aramaic inscription in a cave near the Dead Sea in the Judean ...