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Scholars are calling a rare Hebrew text dating back to the 9th century the earliest known Jewish prayer book, predating the world's oldest Torah scroll. The 50-page book is 4.3 inches tall and ...
A popular Facebook post claimed that an Aramaic-language scroll discovered by archaeologists in 1892 led to a more accurate and definitive translation of the Lord's Prayer.
Once finished, these scans could be combined to form a single, detailed image. Each scroll was tightly wrapped around 50 times. Credit: Journal of Cultural Heritage What the scrolls contained ...
Curious boffins are thrilled after an elaborate 15th century manuscript known as an 'Arma Christi' scroll was found stuffed away in a shoebox full of leaflets dating to the 1980s ...
Thousands of prayers written on a long tightly rolled scroll of paper are within this Buddhist prayer wheel. The prayer scroll is coiled around a rotating central spindle. It is within a casing of ...
A Torah scroll brought by the group for use on the women’s side of the prayer section was confiscated by officials at the security entrance to the wall Sunday morning. Some 60 women took part in ...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Tefilat Nashim B’Kotel-Women’s Prayer at the Wall group held a prayer service in the women’s section of the Western Wall that included a Torah scroll.
A petition to the high court challenged a 2010 directive issued by Western Wall administrator Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz barring women from bringing to and using a Torah scroll on the women’s side.