In July of 2008, a lawyer and literary scholar named Raphael Golb created an email account named after Lawrence Schiffman, a professor who studies the Dead Sea Scrolls. From [email protected], Golb ...

This past week, Norman Golb, a leading scholar of Jewish history and proud son of Chicago, died just shy of his 93rd birthday. He leaves a legacy of knowledge, insight, and passion for a venerable ...

A disbarred lawyer convicted of impersonating a Dead Sea Scrolls scholar and four other academics online in a campaign to discredit their work is going up the river. A judge Thursday sentenced Raphael ...

One of the weirder cases involving paternal pride, ancient texts and the Internet has concluded (well, until the appeal): A NY lawyer was found guilty of dozens of charges, including identity theft, ...

Norman Golb, Notable University of Chicago Semitics Scholar, is dead. A figure who began his life in a densely packed immigrant neighborhood in Chicago and rose to become one of the world’s leading ...

It’s a question that’s been plaguing a select group of Jewish scholars for more than two years. One of them, Dr. Robert Cargill, a California archeologist, made it his mission to find out. To many ...

Prof. Emeritus Norman Golb, a multilingual scholar renowned for his pioneering research about medieval Jewish history and the Dead Sea Scrolls, died on Dec. 29. He was 92 years old. Remembered by his ...

In a career full of discoveries about ancient Jewish history, Golb upended and broadened study of the celebrated Jewish texts. (JTA) — Norman Golb, a pathbreaking academic who broadened scholarship on ...

A Manhattan lawyer was convicted Thursday of impersonating and harassing a prominent NYU Dead Sea Scrolls professor – his dad’s academic rival. Raphael Golb sat stock still as the Manhattan forewoman ...

A man convicted of using digital-age tools to impersonate and malign his father's academic rivals on the ancient subject of the Dead Sea Scrolls was sentenced Monday to two months in jail after the ...

He challenged the conventional wisdom about a major archaeological discovery. He also led a successful effort to open it for study by a wide range of researchers. By Joseph Berger In 1947, a young ...