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Who’s Scroll Is It Anyway?

15-Jan-10

More than 2000-years-old, the Dead Sea Scrolls are far from being a dead issue. A couple of months ago I posted about a battle between two top Jewish American intellectuals who differ in opinion as to who wrote the Scrolls – one held that they were wrote by the Ascetic Jewish sect, the Essenes, where [...]

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The Real Indiana Jones

28-Oct-08

CNN reports:
Archaeologists believe a desert site in Jordan may contain the ruins of the elusive King Solomon’s Mines…. Thomas Levy of the University of California San Diego, who led the research, said carbon dating placed copper production at Khirbat en-Nahas (Arabic for ‘Ruins of copper”) in the 10th century — in line with the [...]

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