The CAS Department of History and the Phi Alpha Theta Honor Society present Dr. Jodi Magness, Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism at the University of North Carolina ...

As you leave Jerusalem and go to the south and to the east, toward the Dead Sea, the terrain changes rapidly and starkly. You move off gradually from [the] ... rolling hillside, through the ravines, ...

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 ...

Researchers are trying to determine the connection between the Dead Sea Scrolls and 33 human skeletons unearthed last year in the Judean Desert near where the scrolls were found. AP file photo ...

“The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible” is the theme for La Sierra University’s 15th annual Archaeology Discovery Weekend, with lectures, panel discussions and hands-on activities scheduled Saturday and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A portion of Dead Sea Scroll number 28a (1Q28a) from Qumran Cave 1. The Dead Sea Scrolls are among the most remarkable and ...

An exhibition featuring fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls — the oldest known copies of biblical texts — will open at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 22, 2025, offering visitors in ...

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 ...