Among the manuscript discoveries of the twentieth century, the small archive of papyri known as the Bar Kokhba Letters occupies a place of quite singular importance for the modern study of Jewish…
Of the seven original Dead Sea Scrolls recovered from the caves above the Wadi Qumran in 1947, the most unusual is the manuscript that scholars now call the War Scroll, and that…
A wooden reading lectern is set inside a limestone cave. An oil lamp flickers on a low stone ledge, throwing a circle of warm light across a long unfurled parchment that stretches…
