An Israeli community is observing the Jewish holiday of Purim with a sacred item made by a group of Oklahomans halfway across the globe. Rabbi Juan Mejia, of Oklahoma City, said he and other members ...

JERUSALEM – A secretive encounter with a Bedouin (search) in a desert valley led to the discovery of two fragments from a nearly 2,000-year-old parchment scroll — the first such finding in decades, an ...

The contents of an ancient burned Hebrew scroll have been deciphered for the first time thanks to state-of-the-art 3D scanning and digital imaging software. The rare parchment scroll, which was ...

“Death to Jews” was found written on paper inside mezuzah scrolls during a routine inspection of the Nahariya Medical Center in Israel, replacing the traditional parchment scroll inscribed with verses ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. —- After more than four decades, the Torahscrolls at B’nai Jacob Synagogue had become faded and smudged. The parchment scrolls are not considered suitable for use if aword is ...

How did the Dead Sea Scrolls—documents written on parchment, papyrus and bronze— survive almost 2,000 years in caves near the Dead Sea? Researchers have been intrigued, in particular, by one document ...

A new study is demonstrating how ancient animal DNA, extracted from Dead Sea Scroll parchments, can help with piecing together the jigsaw puzzle of disparate fragments found in the Judean desert. It's ...

A secretive encounter with a Bedouin in a desert valley led to the discovery of two fragments from a nearly 2,000-year-old parchment scroll — the first such finding in decades, an Israeli ...