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 ...

Now, for the first time since 1968, the Great Isaiah Scroll has been unrolled to its full 24-foot length and placed on public ...

The only two known ancient megillahs written by women are part of a new exhibition at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, whose opening has been postponed due to the Iran war The post Her-storical ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...