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Norman Golb, Dead Sea Scrolls Contrarian, Is Dead at 92 He challenged the conventional wisdom about a major archaeological discovery. He also led a successful effort to open it for study by a wide range of researchers. Norman Golb in an undated photo. He took issue with the standard scholarly thesis about the Dead Sea Scrolls, and he galvanized other scholars to question it as well.Credit...University of Chicago Archive Published Feb. 15, 2021Updated Feb. 17, 2021 In 1947, a young Bedouin shepherd stumbled across a cave one mile from the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea and discovered seven...

The Academy of the Hebrew Language Announces Winner of Architecture Competition Spread the word. Minveh. The new Center will be built at the prestigious National Quarter in Jerusalem, adjacent to the Knesset and the Israel Museum. The design competition was held in collaboration with the Association of Architects and Urban Builders in Israel. Congratulations to Meislitz, Kasif, Roitman on the winning design! The first runners up, tied for second place, were the designs by Michael Peled and Daniel Strasburger; and A. Lerman Architects in collaboration with Daniel Finkelstein and Elvira Turk. ...

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, The purpose of life is to live it. The allegory of Torah reiterates this over and again. In parashat Mishpatim. The text says: מכשפה לא תחיה “A witch, you shall not allow to live.” The root for the word for witch K.Sh.P (כשף) has a variety of meanings across the Semitic langu...

Rachel Feldhay Brenner, the Elaine Marks WARF Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, died on Thursday, February 4 in Madison. She was 74. Born in Zabrze, Poland, Brenner moved to Israel with her family in 1956. She studied at the Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University, and the University of York in Toronto before coming to Madison, where she joined the Department of Hebrew and Semitic Studies in 1992. In addition to chairing the department from 2004 to 2007, Brenner was an active member of the George L. Mosse/Laurence A. Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies, the ...

Follow Feb. 10, 2021 Ever since she was a little girl in Catholic school, Hilary Giaccardi had questions about God. These would often land her in the principal’s office. Now at 60, she’s still on her quest and is learning biblical Hebrew online in order to read scripture in its original form. This involves not only learning to read the language but learning a culture, Giaccardi, an American living in France, told Haaretz by Zoom after her weekly lesson on Monday. The Israel Institute of Biblical Studies was established about 20 years ago and now has thousands of students from over 100 cou...