Medieval History
A little over a year ago, we helped put online five manuscripts of the Dead Sea Scrolls?ancient documents that include the oldest known biblical manuscripts in existence. Written more than 2,000 years ago on pieces of parchment and papyrus, they were preserved by the hot, dry desert climate and the darkness of the caves in which they were hidden. The Scrolls are possibly the most important archaeological discovery of the 20th century.
Today, we?re helping put more of these ancient treasures online. The Israel Antiquities Authority is launching the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library, an online collection of some 5,000 images of scroll fragments, at a quality never seen before. The texts include one of the earliest known copies of the Book of Deuteronomy, which includes the Ten Commandments; part of Chapter 1 of the Book of Genesis, which describes the creation of the world; and hundreds more 2,000-year-old texts, shedding light on the time when Jesus lived and preached, and on the history of Judaism.
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A trove of ancient manuscripts in Hebrew characters rescued from caves in a Taliban stronghold in northern Afghanistan is providing the first physical evidence of a Jewish community that thrived there a thousand years ago. On Thursday Israel's...
- Researchers ?closer Than Ever? To Cracking 5000 Year Old Writings
New technology has allowed researchers to come closer than ever to cracking the world?s oldest undeciphered writing system. Researchers from the University of Oxford and the University of Southampton have developed a Reflectance Transformation Imaging...
- The Written Word (hamila Haketuva)
Qumran cave 4 (of 11)When? When was the first written word? What was that moment like? Was there a thunderous quickening of realization? A mundane interruption? Was there a new sense of the real? A revolutionary possibility of memory beyond oral tradition?...
- Timothy I, Was Invited By The Abbassid Caliph Al-mahdi
In 781 AD the East Syriac Catholicos, Timothy I, was invited by the Abbassid Caliph al-Mahdi to answer a series of questions about Christianity over two days. The questions and his replies are extant in Syriac. I've placed the English translation...
Medieval History
?In the beginning?...bringing the scrolls of Genesis and the Ten Commandments online
A little over a year ago, we helped put online five manuscripts of the Dead Sea Scrolls?ancient documents that include the oldest known biblical manuscripts in existence. Written more than 2,000 years ago on pieces of parchment and papyrus, they were preserved by the hot, dry desert climate and the darkness of the caves in which they were hidden. The Scrolls are possibly the most important archaeological discovery of the 20th century.
Today, we?re helping put more of these ancient treasures online. The Israel Antiquities Authority is launching the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library, an online collection of some 5,000 images of scroll fragments, at a quality never seen before. The texts include one of the earliest known copies of the Book of Deuteronomy, which includes the Ten Commandments; part of Chapter 1 of the Book of Genesis, which describes the creation of the world; and hundreds more 2,000-year-old texts, shedding light on the time when Jesus lived and preached, and on the history of Judaism.
Click here to read this article from Google
- Priceless Manuscripts Missing In Timbuktu
The fabled city of Timbuktu, a place of enigma for centuries, has now given the world another mystery: What happened to thousands of priceless, ancient manuscripts that have vanished into the dusty Sahara winds? When hundreds of French soldiers...
- Israeli Library Unveils Medieval Manuscript Collection Discovered In Afghanistan
A trove of ancient manuscripts in Hebrew characters rescued from caves in a Taliban stronghold in northern Afghanistan is providing the first physical evidence of a Jewish community that thrived there a thousand years ago. On Thursday Israel's...
- Researchers ?closer Than Ever? To Cracking 5000 Year Old Writings
New technology has allowed researchers to come closer than ever to cracking the world?s oldest undeciphered writing system. Researchers from the University of Oxford and the University of Southampton have developed a Reflectance Transformation Imaging...
- The Written Word (hamila Haketuva)
Qumran cave 4 (of 11)When? When was the first written word? What was that moment like? Was there a thunderous quickening of realization? A mundane interruption? Was there a new sense of the real? A revolutionary possibility of memory beyond oral tradition?...
- Timothy I, Was Invited By The Abbassid Caliph Al-mahdi
In 781 AD the East Syriac Catholicos, Timothy I, was invited by the Abbassid Caliph al-Mahdi to answer a series of questions about Christianity over two days. The questions and his replies are extant in Syriac. I've placed the English translation...