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Scrolls in the News
Scrolls in the News
Last updated
08 September 2024
Articles are posted on this page to show the range of reporting about the scrolls and related
topics
in the news media. A link here does not imply Orion Center endorsement of the views expressed in
the
articles.
April 8, 2010 - Times Newspapers Ltd Searching for the Real Jesus: Jesus, the Dead Sea Scrolls and Other Religious Themes by
Geza Vermes/The
Story of the Scrolls: The Miraculous Discovery and True Significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls by
Geza
Vermes
....(read more)
ABCNews Online - July 15, 2005 Fragments of a Biblical manuscript dating back to the last Jewish revolt against Roman
rule in 135
AD Judaea, have been uncovered near the Dead Sea.
....(read
more)
Ynet News - July 17, 2005 Two fragments of nearly 2,000-year-old Torah scroll found in Judean Desert; finding
constitutes
15th scroll fragment found in area from period of Jewish "Bar Kochba" revolt against Romans
....(read
more)
The Temple Mount Sifting Project has established a new website, the
goal of which is to share the research of unidentified or
only-partially-identified artifacts from its site with knowledgeable
community all over the world. The website address is http://www.echad.info/uifinds.
uncnews.unc.edu - July 9, 2018 Unparalleled mosaics discovered by UNC-Chapel Hill archaeologist and team provide new clues
on life in an ancient Galilean Jewish village ....(read more)
dailymail.co.uk - 30 March 2011
Could this be the biggest find since the Dead Sea Scrolls? Seventy metal books found in cave in Jordan
could change our view of Biblical history
....(read more)
Dr. Weston Fields, 1948 - 2023
The Orion Center sadly announces the sudden death (May 25, 2023) in Alaska of Dr. Weston Fields,
Managing Director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Foundation for more than thirty years.
Dr. Fields and the DSSF have been supportive of the publication efforts of the DSS and many other
projects. Weston, who earned a PhD from the Hebrew University, has been a great friend of the University
and of the State of Israel, as well as the Orion Center.
His death is greatly lamented by all of us, and we send our condolences to the family.
Bilha Nitzan, 1933-2022
The Orion Center is saddened to learn of the passing of Professor Bilha Nitzan (1933-2022). She was a
renowned expert in the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and taught in the Department of Biblical Studies,
Tel Aviv University, from 1983 to 2010.
Her Masters' thesis, a path-breaking Hebrew commentary on Pesher Habakkuk, was published in 1986. A
second book on prayer at Qumran (1995) lay the foundation for the study of liturgy in the DSS, a field
that has since enormously developed in the light of her influence. She has authored numerous articles,
many of them collected in a Hebrew volume (Yad Ben Zvi, 2014). She took part in the official publication
of the Dead Sea Scrolls, editing and commenting on numerous liturgical texts in the series Discoveries
in the Judean Desert.
Ada Yardeni
It is with great sorrow that we have to announce the passing away of Dr. Ada Yardeni on 29 June 2018.
Dr. Ada Yardeni was one the greatest researches in Semitic plaeography and epigraphy, and her
decipherment and illumination of the Dead Sea scrolls (as well as of many other texts) are fundamental
and enduring
The Independent. News - May 4, 2006
Jozef Tadeusz Milik, priest and biblical scholar: born Seroczyn, Poland 24 March 1922; ordained priest
1946; married Jolanta Zalowska; died Paris 6 January 2006.
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more)
