Among the countless lost codices and scrolls of classical and late antique Judaism, none possesses a more remarkable historical pedigree or exerts a more enduring fascination for biblical textual critics than the…
Few documents of the late Second Temple and early Tannaitic periods have been more continuously used than the Aramaic translation of the Pentateuch that Jewish tradition calls Targum Onkelos. It is the…
The Mishmarot are the twenty-four priestly courses into which the Aaronide priesthood of ancient Israel was divided for the purpose of rotating the temple service, and the calendars and lists of the…
It is one of the longest biblical manuscripts ever found from antiquity. Written in Hebrew, on seventeen columns of leather, it contains every chapter of the book of Isaiah from the disputed…
The seven scrolls that came out of the caves in the winter of 1947 were the beginning, not the whole story. What followed was fifteen years of Bedouin and archaeological finds, a…
