This year marks the 75th anniversary of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. “Most of the Christian world, it seems to me, has heard of these famous pre-Christian scrolls, discovered in the Judean ...

The scrolls newly discovered are written entirely in Greek except for God’s name, which is represented in Hebrew as the tetragrammaton (YHWH). Qumran caves near the Dead Sea. (photo: Tamarah via ...

Archaeologists discovered new pieces of the Dead Sea Scrolls for the first time in more than six decades. Oren Ableman, a Dead Sea Scrolls scholar and a member of the Israel Antiquities Authority, and ...

The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls gave us a glimpse into Jewish life at the time of Jesus. What insights do they provide on how his teachings took shape? Dated as early as the second century A.D., ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli archaeologists on Tuesday announced the discovery of dozens of Dead Sea Scroll fragments bearing a biblical text found in a desert cave and believed hidden during a Jewish ...

The team of scholars charged with publishing the Dead Sea Scrolls has sown bitterness the world over with the way it has managed the 2,000-year-old scrolls, which it took control of in the early ...

After spending centuries hidden in caves where they were accessible to no one, and decades on display in a Jerusalem museum where they were viewed by the few, the Dead Sea Scrolls arrived on the ...

JERUSALEM — Israeli archaeologists Tuesday announced the discovery of dozens of new Dead Sea Scroll fragments bearing text from the Hebrew Bible and dating back about 1,900 years. The ancient ...

March 16 (UPI) --Archaeologists have recovered fragments from a new set of Dead Sea Scrolls, the first found in 60 years. The remnants of the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets, including verses from ...

Deep in the desolate caves near the Dead Sea, a Bedouin goat herder stumbled upon a find that’s captivated historians, archaeologists, and treasure hunters for decades. Among the ancient texts ...

Israeli archaeologists announced this week the discovery of several new sets of Dead Sea Scrolls- ancient fragments of biblical text that have, for the past 70 years, contributed to scholars' ...