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Horoscopes at Qumran

… and his thighs are long and slender, and the toes of his feet are slender and long. And he is in the second position. His spirit has six (parts) in the house of light and three in the pit of darkness. And this is the sign in which he…

The mysterious Melchizedek of Qumran

11QMelch – or Melchizedek of the Eleventh Qumran Cave – is an angelic figure which, however, also falls within the context of an eschatological intervention of God himself to whom was given the title of malki tsedeq (a Hebrew phrase meaning King of Justice or My King is Justice). Probably,…

The Rule of the Qumran’s Community

The manuscript’s acronym 1QS indicates the place where it was found: the first cave of Qumran; it also indicates the character of the text, a rule, in Hebrew serek. In fact, there is an analogy between the content of this manuscript and the rules of monastic orders and religious congregations; among other…

Josè O’Callaghan

Josè O’Callaghan was born in Tortosa, Spain, on October 7, 1922. He entered the Society of Jesus on October 29, 1940 and was ordained to the priesthood on May 31, 1952. In 1953, he obtained a Licentiate in Theology from the Theological Faculty of San Cugat del Vallés, and then…

The Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library

This is one of those news that can change the history of biblical research. Now all biblical scholars and all other people can examine the important manuscripts found at Qumran and in the other sites of the Dead Sea. The archive contains high resolution images of all these manuscripts. So…

The mysterious jar of Qumran

I think that you have heard speaking about Qumran scrolls discovered in the forties and fifties of last century. Not far from the Dead Sea shore archaeologists discovered a lot of scrolls written in hebrew, greek and even in latin and hidden inside pottery jars. Most of them were biblical…

New Qumran Scrolls!

They lay inside the desert grottoes for centuries and remained hidden for another sixty years inside what were catalogued as tefillin, the phylacteries worn by observant Jews during prayer. This is the background to the sensational discovery of nine new Qumran scrolls. The Dead Sea area of the Qumran is…

This week’s news with a comment by Simone Venturini (20-25 luglio 2015)

A biblical scroll’s fragment deciphered A biblical scroll’s fragment with a passage from the book of Leviticus has been deciphered thanks to a high-tech solution. It has been dated at VI century CE and it was found at the very ancient synagogue of Eing Gedi (read the article) A bad…

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