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 ...

Archaeologists believe the scroll was linked to a sect that believed it was living in the biblical 'End of Days' before an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. AI analysis of Dead Sea Scroll fragments suggests some of the ancient manuscripts are up to 100 years older than once thought. - ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A portion of Dead Sea Scroll number 28a (1Q28a) from Qumran Cave 1. The Dead Sea Scrolls are among the most remarkable and ...

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, ...

“Dead Sea Scrolls: The Exhibition” opened at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on November 22. The exhibit includes 200 artifacts dating back to around 250 BCE to 68 C.E. One of the artifacts is ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls, one of the most significant archaeological discoveries of the 20th century, have fascinated scholars and historians for decades. Their impact on Judaism and early Christianity ...

Biblical scholars have long argued that the Dead Sea Scrolls were the work of an ascetic and celibate Jewish community known as the Essenes, which flourished in the 1st century A.D. in the scorching ...

ST. PAUL -- Back in 1947, a Bedouin shepherd was searching for a lost goat in the hills by the Dead Sea. He threw a rock into a cave, perhaps to startle out an animal, and heard the sound of breaking ...

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 ...