The CAS Department of History and the Phi Alpha Theta Honor Society present Dr. Jodi Magness, Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism at the University of North Carolina ...
Researchers are trying to determine the connection between the Dead Sea Scrolls and 33 human skeletons unearthed last year in the Judean Desert near where the scrolls were found. AP file photo ...
As you leave Jerusalem and go to the south and to the east, toward the Dead Sea, the terrain changes rapidly and starkly. You move off gradually from [the] ... rolling hillside, through the ravines, ...
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If the Qumran texts were written by one such sect, the scrolls “help us to understand the forces that operated after the Maccabean Revolt and how various Jewish groups reacted to those forces,” says ...
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 ...
The Dead Sea Scrolls may have been written decades — or even centuries — earlier than scholars previously thought, according to a revolutionary study that merges traditional scholarship with ...
In her book, “Memory and Oblivion: The Secret of the Dead Sea Scrolls,” Elior proposes that another Jewish sect, the Sadduces, authored the Scrolls, a claim that is stirring up controversy among ...
A question about pieces of a manuscript found in 1883 that may or may not be authentic led me into The Times’s archive. By Jennifer Schuessler The finds, ranging from just a few millimeters to a ...
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