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Last year, the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC, said five of its most valuable artifacts – once thought to be part of the historic Dead Sea Scrolls – were fake. Now the museum is facing ...
The Gutenberg Bible is one of the treasures of Yale University’s Beinecke Library — the first book printed with movable type in Europe. Now it has a companion, a much older Japanese scroll ...
Scientists have finally been able to read the oldest biblical text ever found. The 2,000-year-old scroll has been in the hands of archaeologists for decades.
The Dead Sea Scrolls are among the most remarkable and revolutionary archeological discoveries ever made. Researchers uncovered the first documents within the West Bank’s Qumrum Caves in 1946, ...
A scroll containing stories from Genesis, Noah’s biography, Abraham’s journey into Egypt and a description of Sarah’s beauty, among other matters, was described here today by Yigal Yadin ...
The Bible up for sale is neither the Aleppo nor the St Petersburg Codex. It is Codex Sassoon 1053. Unlike the St Petersburg Codex , pages are missing, so it cannot claim to be the oldest known ...
This scroll was brought to Israel by Kes Aisu in 1982, entrusted to the National Library of Israel. This is a temporary exhibition. Star of the show at ANU ...
The Bible tells an overall story about the history of the world: creation, fall, redemption and God’s Last Judgement of the living and the dead. The Old Testament (which dates to 300 BCE) begins ...