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 ...
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 ...
Archaeologists Challenge Link Between Dead Sea Scrolls and Ancient Sect Drs Yizhak Magen and Yuval Peleg, Israel Antiquities Authority scientists, book The Site of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Archaeological ...
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Dead Sea Scrolls exhibition marking 75 years since discovery to open at Museum of the Bible
An exhibition featuring fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls — the oldest known copies of biblical texts — will open at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 22, 2025, offering visitors in ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Many of the Dead Sea Scrolls, some of the most widely known archaeological finds of all time, may be older than once thought, according to a new study. The fresh analysis, which paired radiocarbon ...
Tweezers and scissors sat within reach of latex glove-clad hands. Rubber suction handles sat attached to a Plexiglass case. When dealing with ancient artifacts like the Dead Sea Scrolls, a single slip ...
“The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible” is the theme for La Sierra University’s 15th annual Archaeology Discovery Weekend, with lectures, panel discussions and hands-on activities scheduled Saturday and ...
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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