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 Dead Sea Scrolls, a collection of Jewish texts found in desert caves near the Dead Sea, in Qumran, in the 1940s and 1950s, date from the third century B.C. to the first century A.D. They include ...

NEW YORK — Half a century after the first of the Dead Sea Scrolls was found in desert caves, archaeologists celebrated the near completion of the publication of the ancient texts. "It’s a very happy ...

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., ...

Technology has enabled new insight into ancient documents that have fascinated and often mystified scholars of Jewish and religious history since their discovery around 70 years ago. Researchers at ...

In a project coordinated by Google, high-resolution photographs of five of the Dead Sea Scrolls can now be viewed and examined online. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a ...

An artificial intelligence program named Enoch has advanced the dating of many of the Dead Sea Scrolls by 50 to 150 years earlier than previously believed, according to a new study published in the ...

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 ...

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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 ...

New book tries to debunk existing theory about the famed Dead Sea Scrolls. JERUSALEM, March 18, 2009— -- The Dead Sea Scrolls are the jewel in the crown of Israeli archaeology. They are ...