The Israel Museum

ForewordA museum is first and foremost a treasury of cultural heritage, its purpose being to preserve and display precious objects of material culture - for the benefit of scholars and professionals and for the delight of the public at large. The study and pubhcation of a museum's collections are...

Foreword This is the first in a series of publications planned by the Israel Museum which will present a selection of the voluminous treasures housed in the various departments of our museum. It is appropriate that highlights of archaeology should begin the series. Our archaeological museum is...

Pinchas Litvinovsky ranks among the leading Israeli artists whose vision and creativity were to form the foundations of Israeli culture. Litvinovsky's image is to a certain extent based upon the erroneous assumption that he was primarily a portrait painter. While he did in fact paint portraits in...

The Psalms Scroll from Qumran cave 11* is one of the best preserved and most interesting of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Some 200 of the scrolls from Qumran, about a third of the total, are of biblical books. Only one biblical scroll (Isaiah), however, has survived in its entirety, and only a few others...

The Shrine of the Book is a concise layman's guide to the Dead Sea Scrolls. Pearlman tells the story of how the scrolls were discovered, explains their history, and describes the eight scrolls. The two biblical scrolls of Isaiah are the most prized of the collection. The remaining six are...

Foreword "And I am like a closed book to my friends, And have become a totál stranger to them" These are the words in which Else Lasker-Schüler described herself: not really lonely, not friendless, but always a stranger. Her alienation was a matter of both fate and choice: fate - because as a...