MORE than 70 years after being discovered, a scientist has deciphered an ancient message from the final Dead Sea Scrolls.

A 2,000-year-old code that once looked like random scratches on parchment has finally given up its secret, turning a handful of obscure Dead Sea fragments into a new window on one of antiquity’s most ...

A scientist has decoded a previously unreadable Dead Sea Scroll manuscript. The ancient text, found near the Dead Sea, contains familiar Hebrew phrases. This breakthrough offers new insights into ...

In his new book, Stav Appel points out Jewish symbols, objects and references in one of the earliest tarot decks.

Birthday of Henrietta Szold, known as the “Mother of the Yishuv,” founder of the Hadassah women’s organization and Youth Aliyah, which saved thousands of Jewish children in Europe and brought them to ...

Two books of the Old Testament - Wisdom and II Machabees - were written in Greek. The rest of the Old Testament was written in the Hebrew language. The New Testament was written in Greek, with the ...