The First Dead Sea Scrolls
By Shelley Neese In 1946 or 1947—no one knows for certain—a Bedouin goatherd nicknamed Muhammad the Wolf led his flock around the cliffs lining the northwest edge of the Dead Sea. As the livestock grazed on sparse vegetation, Muhammad wandered around the boulders....
Opening the Copper Scroll
By Shelley Neese A few weeks ago, I wrote about how the Copper Scroll was found. However, in the beginning, the Copper Scroll didn’t set off the kind of alarm bells that you may expect. The black market was flooded with Dead Sea Scrolls, most of which were very...
Official Copper Scroll Project Book Trailer
The Copper Scroll Project officially launched on October 31, 2018. I thought I would never see this day come but strangers are picking up the book in the airport, checking it out from the library, and adding it to their holiday wish list. The book is doing what books...
Christian Media Summit in Jerusalem
By Shelley Neese Two weeks ago, I had the opportunity to attend the second annual Christian Media Summit in Jerusalem. Hosted by the Government Press Office, the four-day event brought together 130 pro-Israel Christian media figures from 30 countries. The goal of the...
One Man’s Epic Search
By Victor Sharpe, Canada Free Press--- “Within two full years will I bring back into this place all the vessels of Hashem‘s house, that NeBuchadnezar king of Bavel took away from this place, and carried them to Bavel;” Jeremiah 28:3 (The Israel Bible™) The author of...
Finding the Copper Scroll
By Shelley Neese In the spring of 1952, Henri de Contenson, a young French scholar, mounted an expedition to scout desert terraces and cliffs in the Judean desert. They were looking for Dead Sea Scrolls, racing against the illicit Bedouin excavations by using their...
The Holy Calendar
By Shelley Neese This week’s Torah portion covers Deuteronomy 31:1 to 31:30. It is titled Vayeilech which means “and he went.” As the text opens, the people are about to enter into a period of warfare. To take possession of the land, they will first have to fight....
Breaking Israel News features The Copper Scroll Project
Note from Shelley: I did an interview with Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz on Sunday night. We talked for three hours. By the next morning, he had already written and posted the article. Eliyahu is prolific! I think he will do more articles on The Copper Scroll Project in the...
Intro to Parasha
By Shelley Neese Jewish tradition holds that 2500 years ago, Ezra the scribe and Jewish elders created an annual reading schedule which divided the Torah, the first five books of the Bible, into 54 sections. The sections are called parasha, or portion. Following the...