by Shelley | Dec 14, 2018 | Qumranology
By Shelley Neese I co-teach a Sunday School class at my church. Actually, I go to an Anglican congregation so we call it the “Rector’s Forum.” I intended to give a 2,000 year broad sweep of Temple Mount history. Since it was Hanukkah, I thought I...
by Shelley | Nov 26, 2018 | Qumranology
By Shelley Neese On November 24, 1947, with the British Mandate approaching expiration, the nascent Jewish nation was caught up in a bloody civil war with Palestinian nationalists. Jerusalem was divided by barbed wire, booby traps, and makeshift walls as British...
by Shelley | Nov 15, 2018 | Qumranology
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...
by Shelley | Sep 28, 2018 | Qumranology
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...
