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 ...

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 ...

FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2010, file photo, Raphael Golb, center, and his attorney Ron Kuby, left, confer during a recess in his trial at Manhattan State Supreme Court in New York. A judge is expected ...

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 ...

Raphael Golb was convicted of using digital tools to malign father's academic rivals on the subject of the Dead Sea Scrolls A man convicted of using digital-age tools to impersonate and malign his ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Golb also headed a movement in the 1990s to allow increased scholarship of the scrolls, which had been restricted for decades. Norman Golb, a pathbreaking academic who broadened scholarship on the ...