Transmission
The Silver Scroll
In 1979, excavating a tomb in a cave on the western slope of the City of David, the archaeologist Gabriel Barkay uncovered two small objects that were, at first, easy to overlook:…
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Transmission
InscriptiFact and the West Semitic Imaging Program
InscriptiFact, the cross-institution digital library of high-resolution manuscript and inscription images curated by the West Semitic Research Project under the principal direction of the epigrapher and archaeologist Bruce Zuckerman and the consulting…
Scripture
The Ketef Hinnom Scrolls
The two smallest and most famous pieces of scriptural antiquity in the world are rolled-up sheets of silver thinner than a kitchen foil. Each, when unrolled, fits inside the palm of an…