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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 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 ...

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 ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls, discovered in the 1940s near Qumran, represent one of archaeology’s greatest finds. They include ancient biblical texts and religious writings dating back over 2,000 years, yet ...