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 ...
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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 ...
From a garden at the Holy Sepulchre to new dates for the Dead Sea Scrolls, new research is offering detailed glimpses into ...
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The scrolls were first discovered by a Bedouin shepherd inside the West Bank's caves of Qumran ...
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 ...
Many of the Dead Sea Scrolls could be older than once thought, a new study suggests.According to Mladen Popović, lead author of the report published in PLOS One, the analysis used both traditional ...
The Museum of the Bible says five of its Dead Sea Scrolls are fraudulent and will no longer be on display. The Washington, D.C., museum said an independent analysis found characteristics of the five ...
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