Archaeology, Culture, and other Religions

New archeological discoveries, the different traditions and events of a multicultural land, and encounters with the other two monotheistic faiths: Judaism and Islam… get to know in greater depth the cultural and religious richness of this land...

From darkness to light: the scrolls of Qumran

17 April 2018

At the Israel Museum, the Shrine of the Book houses the Dead Sea Scrolls, the oldest extant biblical manuscripts.

The Israel Museum was established in 1965 as a national institution to preserve the history of this land, especially that concerning archaeology. This archaeology relates the stories of many Peoples who lived here and who left physical traces of their cultures. Since its construction, the Shrine of the Book has housed the Dead Sea Scrolls, the oldest extant biblical manuscripts, discovered between 1947 and 1956, near Qumran. Friar GREGOR GEIGER, ofm Studium Biblicum Franciscanum They were found in eleven caves, and they comprise the remains of about nine hundred and fifty scrolls. [...]

Passover, a Jewish festival remembered at a meal.

Archaeology, Culture, and other Religions

The significance of Passover in Jerusalem. We visit the home of a Jewish woman to discover the role of food in this ancient feast. [...]

When Armenian ceramics decorate walls

Archaeology, Culture, and other Religions

The Armenian Balian family in Jerusalem has become well known, since the beginning of the 20th Century, for decorated ceramics. Yet preserving this art, grandchildren have created something [...]

Culture and spirituality of bread

Christians in the Holy Land

Laudato Si”: the Pope's encyclical explained by Cardinal Peter Turkson and by representatives of Judaism and Islam

Actuality and events

In Jerusalem, handicraft by the blind: brushes and brooms

Archaeology, Culture, and other Religions

Maktesh Ramon, the world's largest erosion crater

Archaeology, Culture, and other Religions

The “Tombs of the Prophets” on the Mount of Olives

Archaeology, Culture, and other Religions

The ancient quarries inside the Holy Sepulcher

Archaeology, Culture, and other Religions

Restoration classes in Bethany

Archaeology, Culture, and other Religions

“A thousand times Christmas”, the nativities of Tonino Maurizi in Jerusalem

Archaeology, Culture, and other Religions

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