Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rabbi Juan Mejia, at Oklahoma City's Emanuel Synagogue, works on a parchment scroll inscribed with The Megillah — the Book of ...

The next-gen iPhone display is expected to work just like how parchment scrolls are unrolled. The new iPhone 5s displayed inside Apple's store in Causeway Bay district on September 20, 2013 in Hong ...

What does a sacred text go through before it is turned into a book? The cliffs in the Judean Desert are made up of pale limestone and they look over the shore where the salt covers the ground and the ...

The Jewish community of Chapman University had cause for celebration Sunday when the last of the 304,805 Hebrew letters were painstakingly inked onto a parchment scroll, marking the completion of the ...

The scrolls newly discovered are written entirely in Greek except for God’s name, which is represented in Hebrew as the tetragrammaton (YHWH). Qumran caves near the Dead Sea. (photo: Tamarah via ...

This is one of the most challenging scrolls to come by. It is an extremely rare drop, and it’s the only scroll we have yet to collect in our playthrough. Therefore, we don’t quite yet know what the ...

JERUSALEM, March 16 (Reuters) - Israeli archaeologists racing against treasure hunters to search caves near the Dead Sea have discovered a trove of artefacts, including fragments of a biblical text, ...

Ein Gedi is the site of a large Jewish community of antiquity in Israel, dating from the late eighth century BCE. It was destroyed by fire ca 600 CE, including the synagogue and all its relics and ...

On February 9, 1767, just a few weeks before the Jewish holiday of Purim, a Jewish teen in Rome celebrated her 14th birthday by putting the final touches on a parchment scroll. Joining the ranks of ...