Researchers are using a very modern tool to transcribe and read hundreds of thousands of medieval manuscripts from the lost ...

Here's what you need to know about playing this festive Hanukkah activity. A dreidel is a spinning top with four sides, each inscribed with a letter of the Hebrew alphabet. The Hebrew letters ...

But among the scrolls they hid in caves beneath their clifftop monastery were two written in code. This was a mystic, ...

For years, the Dead Sea Scrolls have fueled theories of encrypted messages and secret doctrines reserved for a select few. A ...

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 ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

Here’s a brain-teaser: the name “Jesus” would have meant absolutely nothing to the man from Nazareth himself. In fact, the letter “J” never existed during his era. For anyone who’s ever wondered how ...

The corruption of Jewish legacy customs, not to mention religious practices, is kinetic.The post Mamdani goes to Satmar … and other Chanukah stories appeared first on JNS.org.

For decades, scholars studying the Dead Sea Scrolls have puzzled over a small group of strange symbols and alphabets that appeared to belong to no known writing system. Now, a researcher says one of ...

A-B-C-D-E-F-G ... This famous sequence of letters known to much of the world dates back to the 16th century BC. A fairly small group of traders and merchants known as ...

When Mashiach comes, we will realize that we are currently in a dream. Our life is a living paradox, yet it seems to make ...

The Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio, a key valuation measure, is calculated by dividing the stock's most recent closing price by the sum of the diluted earnings per share from continuing operations for ...