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JERUSALEM — The Israel Museum in Jerusalem launched its Dead Sea Scrolls Project Monday, placing five of the ancient texts online for the general public to study, the museum announced.

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 ...

Online Battle Over Sacred Scrolls, Real-World Consequences Raphael Haim Golb, 53, is headed to jail for waging an Internet campaign against his father’s academic rivals over the origins of the Dead ...

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 ...

Mysterious authors penned these holy texts some 2,000 years ago, but modern archaeology is shedding new light on who they were. A Dominican Father reconstructs the text of a fragment of the Great ...

An ancient Hebrew document created more than 1,000 years ago and stashed away in Cairo may unlock a secret of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Scholars of the scrolls have long wondered why so many fragments of ...

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 ...