After nearly a decade of writing, the remarkable story of one man’s quest to decipher the ancient map leading to the gold and silver Temple vessels is being published.
Qumran
The identification of new letters and words provides new data for the study of the scrolls. One of the fragments may even indicate the existence of a hitherto unknown manuscript.
The Essenes were contemporary with other Jewish sects such as the Pharisees and Sadducees. Nagar compared them to Christian monks.
The fortress of Machaerus was built by Hasmonean king Alexander Yanai (104-78 BCE), probably in 90 BCE.
A Noahide and former criminal investigator has deciphered an enigmatic 2,000-year-old message known as the Dead Sea Copper Scroll.
