New software tools have enabled scientists to read an ancient, damaged Hebrew scroll without ever unfurling the fragile, disintegrating parchment. The digitization techniques, known as "volume ...

he was surprised when library officials showed him three centuries-old Hebrew scrolls that had been sitting on a dusty shelf for some 50 years. Jacobi, a doctoral candidate in Jewish art at Israel ...

Most of the intact scrolls were easily readable by anyone who knew Hebrew or, in one case, Aramaic. The fragmentary scrolls, however, presented a more difficult problem. These too were mostly ...

A team of academics is aiming to correct centuries-old errors in the Hebrew Bible, but some are questioning the wisdom of their endeavor. LOS ANGELES (JTA) — According to Jewish tradition, the ...

The scrolls feature text from the Hebrew Bible, which is Christianity’s Old Testament, and include passages from books such as Exodus, Deuteronomy and Proverbs. For each scroll, the original ...

Scholars from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Vienna and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem recently published their findings in the journal Tyche, revealing an unprecedented ...

Most of the intact scrolls were easily readable by anyone who knew Hebrew or, in one case, Aramaic. The fragmentary scrolls, however, presented a more difficult problem. These too were mostly ...