Qumran is a small settlement on the west shore of the Dead Sea. The Dead Sea Scrolls were found nearby. The archaeology of this settlement sheds light on the Jewish community that lived here and ...

Dead Sea gathering. In a new study, published online at the end of July in the journal Religions, Vainstub argues that Qumran was the location of this annual gathering based on a version of the ...

Fragments of shattered jars believed to have contained stolen Dead Sea scrolls, found in Cave 53 near Qumran. (Casey L. Olson and Oren Gutfeld, Hebrew University) ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls may have been written, at least in part, by a sectarian group called the Essenes, according to nearly 200 textiles discovered in caves at Qumran, in the West Bank, where the ...

New Dead Sea Scroll cave found near Qumran, but scrolls are gone Empty storage jars and a scrap of parchment unearthed in dig carried out by Hebrew U, IAA at site apparently looted in the 1940s.

At Qumran, on the other hand, among the Dead Sea Scrolls, we hear not of just one Messiah, but at least two Messiahs. Some of their writings talk about a Messiah of David that is a kind of kingly ...

This panorama shows the Qumran site on the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea, on the West Bank. At upper left, a black triangle indicates a bluff, behind which the Qumran community may have ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls were recovered from 11 caves in the West Bank between the late 1940s and the mid 1950s, after first being discovered in one cave by a shepherd.

Dead Sea Scrolls Revealed: How Scientists Cracked the Secrets of the Mystery Texts Published Feb 21, 2018 at 4:51 AM EST Updated Feb 21, 2018 at 6:47 AM EST Caves at Qumran, where the Dead Sea ...

Many scholars believe that the Dead Sea Scrolls were hidden in the Qumran caves around A.D. 70, during a Jewish revolt against the Roman Empire. They may have been written by a Jewish sect known ...

At Qumran, on the other hand, among the Dead Sea Scrolls, we hear not of just one Messiah, but at least two Messiahs. Some of their writings talk about a Messiah of David that is a kind of kingly ...