Magen Broshi (M / Israel, 1929-2020), scholar

Magen Broshi (M / Israel, 1929-2020) scholar.

Magen Broshi was a world-renowned Israeli archeologist, author, historian and lecturer. From 1964 to 1994, he was the curator of the Shrine of the Book, the wing of the Israel Museum where most of the intact Dead Sea Scrolls are housed. He was appointed to the committee that oversees the Scroll’s publication team. He is the past Chairman of the Museum Association of Israel and has been a guest lecturer at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. He has directed many important archaeological expeditions in Israel, including the excavations at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Mount Zion excavations, and excavation of the inhabited caves at Qumran.

Works

Books

• Megilat Tehilim me-Kumran (Jerusalem 1981)
  • Psalms Scroll from Qumran (Jerusalem 1986)
• The Damascus Document Reconsidered (Jerusalem 1992)

• Bread, Wine, Walls and Scrolls (2001 Broshi), book