Qumran scrolls view challenged

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Qumran Scrolls Photo: GPO An American academic leading visitors around an exhibition of the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Natural History Museum in San Diego will challenge the consensus on the identity of the scrolls’ authors, the Chicago Jewish News said on Friday. Professor Norman Golb, of the Jewish History and Civilization department at the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute, does not believe that the scrolls were authored by the ancient Jewish Essene sect, a pacifist group, as most experts believe, arguing instead that the scrolls were authored by a variety of Jewish residents of Judea who fled the Roman

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Archaeologist recounts discovery of oldest biblical text

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Gabriel “Gaby” Barkay led a dig in Jerusalem 30 years ago. It was on the grounds of St. Andrews Church of Scotland, within view of Old Jerusalem, erected in 1927 in the Valley of Hinnom (Ketef Hinnom), where Barkay oversaw an archaeological dig in the mid- to late-1970s. Read about his account of his discovery of Biblical text which predates the earliest Dead Sea Scrolls by four centuries, from the Baptist Press.

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The Mughrabi Ramp – the Real Story

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Articles from the Israel Antiquities Authority: the Mughrabi Ramp – the Real Story The Real Story Why must excavations be conducted next to the Temple Mount Prehistory The Neolithic Period Israel Cross Highway Israel Cross Highway Beit Shean, (Nysa-Scythopolis) Introduction The Hellenistic Period The Roman Period The Roman Period, Archaeological Remains The Byzantine Period The Byzantine Churches The Umayyad Period Conferences The Thirty-Second Archaeological Conference in Israel Bio- and Material Culture in connection with Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls – Cost Action G8 Working Group 7 Holidays Shavuot – Pentecost Study Days Center and Periphery in the light of

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Important finds from the Temple Mount rubble that the arabs dumped as garbage

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More archaeological proof that Jerusalem belongs to the Jews and that Israel is the result of the return of Jews to their restored homeland. The following is from an Associated Press article published on Yahoo, which by the way, contains glaring inaccuracies. See if you can find some: Off an East Jerusalem side street [Smooth: East Jerusalem does not exist but eastern Jerusalem does], between an olive orchard and an abandoned hotel, sit a few piles of stones and dirt that are yielding important insights into Jerusalem’s history. They come from one of the world’s most disputed holy places –

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Science Unlocks Biblical Secrets

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From CBS: “May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord make his face to shine upon you.” As CBS News Correspondent David Hawkins reports, it’s one of the most familiar prayers from the Bible common to both Christians and Jews. It’s known as the “Priestly Benediction” from the Book of Numbers. “When we came back from synagogue on Friday night, these were the words which my late father used to bless me. I was five years old,” says Israeli archaeologist Gabriel Barkay. In 1979, Barkay found two small silver scrolls in an ancient Israelite tomb on a

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