Nobody ever expected to find the Dead Sea Scrolls, especially in the place that they were found; the climate isn’t right for preservation of ancient parchment and papyrus. Yet, the amazing discovery ...
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The Dead Sea Scrolls Changed Our Understanding of the Bible. Could Some of Them Be Even Older Than We Thought?
In 1947, a Bedouin shepherd tossed a rock into a cave near the Dead Sea—and he heard it strike pottery. Upon entering the cave, he found a jar filled with three well-preserved rolls of marked ...
It’s a scandal of biblical proportions. All 16 Dead Sea Scroll fragments displayed in the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., are fake, the museum announced Friday in a press release. The fake ...
Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. The ...
The 16 purported fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the Museum of the Bible might be fakes, but at least four such fragments housed at the University of Manchester in the UK are the real deal. For ...
Sixteen forgeries have been discovered so far in the collections of unsuspecting evangelicals. Experts have suspicions about many more. Mark Lanier thinks if you were going to fake a fragment of the ...
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The oldest complete biblical scroll ever found was originally split in 2, scholar finds
Study comes as 'Great Isaiah,' a 24-foot-long text parchment found with the Dead Sea Scrolls, set to be displayed by the ...
Small scraps of parchment inscribed with tiny Hebrew letters. They look like countries cut out of a map or lost pieces from a jigsaw puzzle nobody could solve. Some scholars say they're pieces of the ...
From a garden at the Holy Sepulchre to new dates for the Dead Sea Scrolls, new research is offering detailed glimpses into ...
Nearly two years after it said fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls were fake, a museum in the U.S. said that none of the fragments are real. “After an exhaustive review of all the imaging and scientific ...
“Any reputable Bible museum almost has to have Dead Sea Scrolls,” said David Trobisch, the Museum of the Bible’s director of collections. Before the scrolls were discovered 70 years ago, the earliest ...
The Dead Sea Scrolls are an important part of that story, Green says. At nearly 2,000 years old, they testify to the reliability of the Bible, to scripture’s timeless truths. But Arstein Justnes, a ...
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