Was the Oldest and Most Significant Dead Sea Scroll Mistakenly Declared a Forgery in 1883? I am inviting you to a special live Youtube presentation by Ross K. Nichols, author of the 2021 book, The Moses Scroll, today at 11:30 EST, with discussion following. Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/live/L6ZGaFgZc0I If…
Do you recognize any of the faces below? Are you “free” to Zoom in and join us October 16-17, 2021 for an intense round of lectures and interchanges? As we continue to recover globally from the Covid-19 disruptions to our lives the Biblical Archaeology Society 24th Annual Bible and Archaeology…
Excuse my enthusiasm! What are the chances that the same week that Ross Nichols’s new book, The Moses Scroll, which relates the saga of the Moses Shapira “Deuteronomy” manuscripts, was officially published (see my post from Monday here), the summary evidence of a new and solidly academic book on the Shapira “scrolls,”…
Millions were introduced to the famous “Ark of the Covenant,” if not in Sunday school growing up, then through the blockbuster 1981 “Raiders of the Lost Ark” Indiana Jones film. The familiar image of the gold plated ark with its angelic “cherubim,” and quasi-magical powers has become legendary, part of…