by admin | May 7, 2018 | Browse All, Dead Sea Scrolls, Inscriptions, Media
Israel on Tuesday announced an ambitious new project aimed at finally piecing together some of the thousands of fragments of the 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls that have mystified experts since their discovery in the 1940s and 1950s. The $1.75 million project aims to...
by admin | May 8, 2018 | Browse All, Dead Sea Scrolls, Qumran
Targum of Job (11Q10) The book of Job is by far the most difficult book in the Bible. The Hebrew in which it is written is as difficult and complex as the Hebrew of Genesis is easy and straightforward. This is because Job is a late book; most scholars put its...
by admin | May 8, 2018 | Browse All, Dead Sea Scrolls, Qumran
Part IV – The Isaiah Scroll The passage of the Isaiah Scroll offered by Biblical Reproductions, from Isaiah, chapter 22, is a fairly straight-forward account of fortification work done by King Hezekiah in the days of an Assyrian threat against Judah in the late eighth...
by admin | May 8, 2018 | Browse All, Dead Sea Scrolls, Qumran
Enoch Fragment (4 Q201-821) Enoch, according to Genesis 5:24, was the first human being who did not die. Rather, “…he was no more, because God took him away.” This mystical and mysterious ending to his life excited the imagination of Jewish writers of the period...
by admin | May 8, 2018 | Browse All, Dead Sea Scrolls, Qumran
The Day of Atonement The fragment of Leviticus 23, described here in Biblical Reproductions blog, includes verses 26 and following, and deals with YomKippur, the Day of Atonement, holiest day of the Hebrew calendar. The text of verses 26 -28 reads- 26 The Lord said to...
by admin | May 8, 2018 | Browse All, Dead Sea Scrolls, Qumran
The Appointed Festivals The book of Leviticus, a reproduction of which (from Chapter 23) will be offered here in near future by Biblical Reproductions, is the third book of the Pentateuch, the Five Books of Moses. It is different from the book that precedes it,...
