'May This Coming Year Come Upon Us in Peace'; The Ancient First of Nisan Celebration
Part I It is late March and the weather is still cold.
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Part I It is late March and the weather is still cold.
There are many common misconceptions about the crucifixion of Jesus among secular communities. Most modern Christians endeavor to use critical methods i...
To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Most of the scribes who copied the text contained in the Dead Sea Scrolls were anonymous, as they neglected to sign their work. That has made it challenging for scholars to determine whether a given manuscript should be attributed to a single scribe or more than one, based on unique elements in their writing styles (a study called paleography). Now, a new handwriting analysis of the Great Isaiah Scroll, applying the tools of artificial intelligence, has revealed that the text was likely written by two scribes, mirroring one...
Israel Antiquities Authority excavations at the Byzantine church. (Yoli Schwartz/ Israel Antiquities Authority) Beit Harel pre-military program students washing finds at the Beit Nattif archaeological excavation. (Yoli Schwartz/Israel Antiquities Authority) High school pupils at the Israel Antiquities Authority excavation of the earliest soap factory in Israel, in Rahat, a Beduin city in the Negev Desert. (Emil Aladjem/Israel Antiquities Authority) IAA archaeologist Dr. Lior Weisbrod with tiny fossils of rodents from the excavation. (Yoli Schwartz, Israel Antiquities Authority) Since most arc...