Introduction Half a century has now passed since a bedouin shepherd discovered a long-hidden cache of scrolls in a cave in cliffs above the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea. The details of that ...

Significance of the Old Testament texts rests in their verification of the tenth century Hebrew, upon which the English version ... precise meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls on specific scientific ...

A groundbreaking discovery revealed the successful decoding of one of the last remaining Dead Sea Scrolls, which contained an ancient priestly calendar used by a Jewish sect over 2000 years ago ...

It was among the first seven scrolls found and has been central to discussions about the Dead Sea Scrolls ever since. But this work's centrality has depended less on the accident that it was among ...

Professor George Brooke is Rylands Professor Emeritus and one of the foremost experts on the Dead Sea Scrolls. He acted as consultant on the recent Leverhulme project which revealed text on the ...