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, ...

What does a sacred text go through before it is turned into a book? The cliffs in the Judean Desert are made up of pale limestone and they look over the shore where the salt covers the ground and the ...

Since the first discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947, the faded parchments of Qumran have provided extraordinary insights into the nature of Judaism at the time when Christianity was born. Now, ...

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 ...

The discovery of yet another cave thought to have contained the historically significant ancient documents also turns up evidence they were stolen. Leslie Katz led a team that explored the ...

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 ...

A portion of Dead Sea Scroll number 28a (1Q28a) from Qumran Cave 1. The Dead Sea Scrolls are among the most remarkable and revolutionary archeological discoveries ever made. Researchers uncovered the ...

“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 ruins of the ancient settlement of Qumran are typically off limits to the public, but we were given insider's access to the caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found.

Prof. Yigael Yadin, former Chief of Staff of Israel’s armed forces and one of the country’s leading archaeologists, today described a new find in the Qumran caves near the Dead Sea not far from where ...