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 ...

(JTA) — Norman Golb, a pathbreaking academic who broadened scholarship on the Dead Sea Scrolls and unearthed a history of Jews in Medieval France, has died at 92. Golb died on Dec. 29, UChicago News ...

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 ...

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 ...

Raphael Golb, listens as his lawyer, Ronald Kuby (not pictured) argues on his behalf during a sentencing hearing in New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan July 14, 2014. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP)-- A scholar's son was convicted Thursday of using online aliases to harass and discredit his father's detractors in a heated academic debate over the origins of the Dead Sea Scrolls. A ...

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 ...