He emerged with the first of what would be about 15,000 fragments of some 850 scrolls secreted in the many caves that pock the cliffs rising above the Dead Sea. The 1948 Arab-Israeli War prevented ...

Subsequent to that first discovery, eleven different caves have been ... think it may be a treasure map of their own holdings. Who were the Essenes? The Dead Sea Scrolls are usually thought ...

Legally, all the Scrolls became the Department's property on discovery; it could later dispose of the antiquities as it wished. The original finding of Cave One at Qumran, near the Dead Sea ...

Many people have doubted the accuracy of Biblical transmission over the ages. Claims that it no longer represents a true reflection of the original texts were commonplace. With the discovery of the ...

The Ten Commandments Scroll from the Dead Sea Scrolls is on display at Ronald Reagan ... Deuteronomy,” was discovered in 1952 in Qumran Cave 4, located in what is now the West Bank.

Subsequent to that first discovery, eleven different caves have been ... think it may be a treasure map of their own holdings. Who were the Essenes? The Dead Sea Scrolls are usually thought ...