Christians who believe in a divine Son of God Messiah, do not draw a distinction between the Hebrew Bible’s eschatological hopes for God’s glorious future age of world wide peace and justice, and an ...

Eight newly installed Dead Sea Scrolls, including a rare manuscript outlining the beliefs and structure of the ancient Qumran ...

Claims that an asteroid or comet airburst destroyed the biblical Sodom captured the public’s imagination. Its retraction ...

A team of European archeologists using AI techniques say the Dead Sea Scrolls are older than previously known.

The Dead Sea Scrolls are among the most remarkable and revolutionary archeological discoveries ever made. Researchers uncovered the first documents within the West Bank’s Qumrum Caves in 1946, ...

Step into the ancient settlement of Qumran, the discovery site of the Dead Sea Scrolls—one of history’s greatest archaeological finds.

This mikveh (or ritual bathing pool), uncovered in the Qumran settlement, is believed by some to be evidence that the authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls were Essenes.

And why were Qumran's many ritual baths, or "miqva'ot,"so large? What are the Dead Sea Scrolls, the ancient texts from the Hebrew Bible found in the caves of Qumran?

The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered at the so-called Qumran Caves - a complex of 12 caves in what was then part of Jordan but is now in the West Bank, near the Dead Sea.

Qumran Cave 1, above the northwest shore of the Dead Sea, where the Great Isaiah Scroll was found in late 1946/early 1947. Dan Lundberg/CC BY-SA 2.0 ...