In 1947 a Bedouin shepherd unearthed the first of nearly 900 texts that would come to be known as the Dead Sea Scrolls. They were found in a series of 11 caves near Qumran, Israel (shown here).

Professor Jutta Jokiranta. (Image: Maarit Kytöharju) The Dead Sea Scrolls, also known as the Qumran Scrolls among scholars, were one of the most significant archaeological finds of the last century.

Avec le programme complet du congrès. Presentation of the topic of the meeting of the IOQS on the Apocryphal, Pseudepigraphical, and Para-biblical Texts found at Qumran. It attempts to clarify the ...

In other Qumran texts, the word God is written in a distinctive script, a reminder that the sacred name is too holy to pronounce; in the new scroll, the letters for Yahweh are written in the style ...

This lecture explores some of the 70-year history of Dead Sea Scrolls scholarship, with particular focus on psalms and other prayer texts. In an effort to understand the prayer life of Jews in the ...

But since 1956, no new texts have been found — only crockery, pottery and other remains of the Qumran settlement. But the co-director of the latest dig comes with an unusual track record.

In 1946 or 1947, a Bedouin goatherd found a number of ancient texts in a cave overlooking the Dead Sea and the ruins of the town of Qumran in the West Bank.

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 ...

But the texts, when examined, turned out to cover almost half of the Old Testament. Their date, from 200 B.C. to 70 A.D., make them the oldest Hebrew version of the Bible ever discovered.

The University of Chicago's Golb said he was unconvinced. Even if Qumran's residents set up a latrine 1,600 feet away, that wouldn't necessarily identify the community's residents as Essenes, he said.