The MiDRASH project received an $11.5 million grant to take research on medieval Jewish literature to the next level The post ...

New technologies and academic collaborations are helping scholars analyze hundreds of ancient documents in Aramaic, one of the Middle East's oldest continuously spoken and written languages. New ...

New technologies and academic collaborations are helping scholars at the University of Chicago analyze hundreds of ancient documents in Aramaic, one of the Middle East’s oldest continuously spoken and ...

In 1993, a basalt stone fragment inscribed with about a dozen lines of text was found by a Hebrew Union College expedition to Tel Dan — the biblical city of Dan — in the upper Galilee area of Israel.

HAIFA, Israel – The Dead Sea Scrolls, which are among the oldest extant biblical manuscripts, have been a topic of interest since they were discovered in the Qumran Caves in the West Bank beginning in ...

Many of the manuscripts known as the Dead Sea Scrolls may be much older than previously thought, according to a new study that could transform our understanding of their Jewish and Christian origins.

Every year, during the month of Elul, if not before, cantors return to these ancient Aramaic words in reverential search of meaning and inspiration, for they possess a power beyond any others in our ...

In California Science Center’s new “Dead Sea Scrolls: The Exhibition,” Robert Duke is hunched over a digitized blowup of a parchment fragment. The original is blotched and no bigger than a postage ...

Israeli archaeologists have discovered new fragments of Dead Sea Scrolls in the Cave of the Skulls near the Dead Sea, Haaretz reported. The two tiny fragments, smaller than a square inch each, are too ...

New technologies and academic collaborations are helping scholars at the University of Chicago analyze hundreds of ancient documents in Aramaic, one of the Middle ...