A community portal about The Dead Sea Scrolls with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Dead Sea scrolls comprise roughly 825-872 documents, including texts from the Hebrew Bible, discovered between 1947 and 1956 in...
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A community portal about The Dead Sea Scrolls with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Dead Sea scrolls comprise roughly 825-872 documents, including texts from the Hebrew Bible, discovered between 1947 and 1956 in eleven caves in and around the Wadi Qumran. The texts are of great religious and historical significance, as they are practically the only known surviving Biblical documents written before AD 100.
A 3,000 year-old inscription discovered at a site where the Bible says David slew Goliath has been deciphered, showing it to be the earliest known Hebrew writing, Israeli archaeologists said on Thursday. The pottery shard with five lines of text in the proto-Canaanite script that was used by Hebrews, Philistines and others in the region was discovered 18 months ago. The writing was decrypted by Gershon Galil of the University of Haifa who "has shown this is a Hebrew inscription," said a... Read Full Story
According to an article published in The Jerusalem Post , Jordan has asked Canada to seize and return some fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls on display in Toronto. Jordan claims ownership of the Scrolls, claiming that Israel took possession of them illegally during the Six Day War. The following is an excerpt from the article: Jordan has asked Canada to seize the selected parchments of the 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls that have been on display in Toronto, invoking international law in a... Read Full Story
Politics and Archaeology An exhibition at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto , of the Dead Sea Scrolls, provided and sponsored by the Israeli Antiquities Authority is the subject of diplomatic moves by Jordan. The Government of Jordan has requested that Canadian Government seize the scrolls presently in Toronto which “Jordan claims were illegally taken by Israel in 1967.” At the heart of the issue is an international agreement signed in 1954. Toronto’s Globe and Mail reports: Summoning the... Read Full Story
From: Jake Javanshir 2,000-year-old Hebrew artifacts, which Jordan claims were illegally taken by Israel in 1967, are on display in Toronto Patrick Martin Jordan has asked Canada to seize the 2,000-year-old Dead Sea scrolls, on display until Sunday at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto , invoking international law in a bid to keep the artifacts out of the hands of Israel until their disputed ownership is settled. Even if Canada ignores the request, it will make other countries think twice... Read Full Story
The Canadian government says it will not act upon a request by the Jordanian government that it seize the 2,000-year-old Dead Sea scrolls, now on their last day of display at the Royal Ontario...
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January 3, 2010 Jordan has asked Canada to seize the selected parchments of the 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls that have been on display in Toronto, invoking international law in a bid to keep the artifacts out of Israel's hands until their "disputed ownership" is settled, the Toronto-based Globe and Mail reported last week….. More Read Full Story
Scriptural scholars are abuzz over a stone tablet that is said to bear previously unknown prophecies about a Jewish messiah who would rise from the dead in three days. But there are far more questions than answers about the tablet, which some have suggested could represent "a new Dead Sea Scroll in stone." Do the tablet and the inked text really date back to the first century B.C., as claimed? Where did the artifact come from? Can the gaps in the text be filled in to make sense? Is the... Read Full Story
Students and university officials started getting e-mails last year in which a prominent Judaic studies scholar seemed to make a startling confession: He had committed plagiarism. The messages, it turned out, were a hoax. Prosecutors filed criminal charges, saying a lawyer sent the messages to tarnish the professor, his father's rival. The court case has drawn attention to issues both ancient (the origin of the Dead Sea Scrolls) and decidedly modern (phony online identities). On Wednesday, a... Read Full Story
Photo : A Non-Biblical Text from Qumran Photo Credit : Israel Antiquities Authority The Dead Sea Scrolls have been the subject of many books, articles, documentaries, and controversies. The latest controversy about the Dead Sea Scrolls is brewing in Canada. The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto is planning a six-month exhibit of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The exhibit is being cosponsored by the Israel Antiquities Authority. The exhibit will run from June 27, 2009 to January 3, 2010. However, top... Read Full Story
Palestinian Dead Sea Scrolls
Karin Friedemann (LETTER FROM AMERICA)
25 May 2009
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayad has made a formal complaint to the Canadian government regarding the intention of Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum to collaborate with the Israel Antiquities Authority to host “Dead Sea Scrolls: Words that Changed the World” from June 27 to January 3, 2010.
Palestinian Archaeological Department Director-General Hamdan Taha explains, “The exhibition... Read Full Story
