(JNS) The Qumran caves in the Judean Desert have continued to yield amazing and unexpected treasures. To date, the following have been discovered: 1) The Dead Sea Scrolls, 2,000-year-old parchments ...

An interdisciplinary team from Tel Aviv University, led by Prof. Oded Rechavi of TAU's George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Prof. Noam Mizrahi of TAU's Department of Biblical Studies, in ...

The collection of more than 25,000 fragments of ancient manuscripts known as the Dead Sea Scrolls include, among other ancient texts, the oldest copies of books of the Hebrew Bible. But finding a way ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls were found in this cave in Qumran in the West Bank. (Courthouse News via Effi Schweizer, Wikipedia) (CN) — Researchers in Israel and Sweden have found a new way to piece together ...

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If the Qumran texts were written by one such sect, the scrolls “help us to understand the forces that operated after the Maccabean Revolt and how various Jewish groups reacted to those forces,” says ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls, one of the most significant archaeological discoveries of the 20th century, have fascinated scholars and historians for decades. Their impact on Judaism and early Christianity ...

One of the Qumran caves where the Dead Sea Scroll fragments were found. Courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority, Photographer Shai Halevi Researchers studying the Dead Sea Scrolls have figured ...

“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 University of Manchester thought the ancient fragments were worthless. Now they have the only Dead Sea Scroll text in a UK institution. Joan Taylor examining the Dead Sea Scrolls fragments in the ...

Rescued from the dusty interior of the Qumran Caves in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls contain the oldest manuscripts of the Old Testament and are a crucial piece of Biblical history that dates back to the ...

Ancient DNA extracted from Dead Sea Scrolls permits a rare, unanticipated glimpse into world of Second Temple Judaism. An interdisciplinary team from Tel Aviv University, led by Prof. Oded Rechavi of ...