by admin | May 8, 2018 | Browse All, Monumental Inscriptions, Stone
Biblical inscriptions are rare indeed. Complete texts are almost non-existent. We are not surprised to find that the House of David inscription, pieces of which were found in excavations of the Biblical city of Dan in the 1990′s by Prof. Avraham Biran, of the Hebrew...
by admin | May 8, 2018 | Browse All, Masada
Finding Bible Texts Stored in the Synagogue Every archaeologist wants to find written materials but not all of them succeed. Professor Yigael Yadin, leading his crew excavating the ruins of Herod’s fortress of Masada in the early 1960′s, was one of the lucky ones who...
by admin | May 8, 2018 | Browse All, Dead Sea Scrolls, Qumran
The Book of War is one manuscript in the collection known as the Dead Sea Scrolls, a library of about five hundred documents first discovered in 1947-1948, along the shores of the Dead Sea, mostly near the ancient settlement of Qumran. Most scholars believe the...
by admin | May 8, 2018 | Browse All, Dead Sea Scrolls, Qumran
Part II -The Isaiah Scroll The Prophet who wrote chapters 1-39 of the book of Isaiah was a Jew living in Jerusalem during troubled times. This was a period (735-732...
by admin | May 8, 2018 | Browse All, Dead Sea Scrolls, Qumran, Scrolls from the Judean Desert
The writers of the book of Genesis were obviously aware of the literature and poetry of their day. Some of the tales and legends were Egyptian, but most of the literature that has survived was Assyrian, from the Fertile Crescent of the Tigris-Euphrates valley. There...
by admin | May 8, 2018 | Browse All, Monumental Inscriptions, Stone
The man who discovered the Temple Mount Inscription, Charles Clermont-Ganneau, is our link to the story. He was in Jerusalem in 1868, serving as dragoman — translator and interpreter — for the French Consulate, when a startling discovery was reported from...
