DNA Extracted from Animal Skins of Dead Sea Scrolls Offer Rare Glimpse into World of Second Temple
Many Scroll fragments were not found by archaeologists, said Mizrahi, but by shepherds, delivered to antiquity dealers, and only subsequently handed over to scholars.
All of the Dead Sea Scrolls at Bible Museum in Washington are Completely Fake
“We’re victims — we’re victims of misrepresentation, we’re victims of fraud,” CEO Harry Hargrove said
Revival of Dead Sea Scroll Excavation Race
Hundreds of meters above the Dead Sea, archaeologists work from dangerous cliffs, hoping for a major discovery — another Dead Sea Scroll. The famous artifacts were originally found over 70 years ago in Qumran, the same area being excavated now. The decades old quest died down, but in recent years, the search has been reignited.
Search For Temple Utensils Reveals City of Prophets
Jim Barfield’s 12-year search for the Temple utensils revealed an unexpected discovery to an Oklahoma Noahide: a powerful spiritual connection between the mountaintop Temple in Jerusalem and at Qumran, located near to the deepest spot on the planet. Just as Jerusalem was a city for priests to serve in the Temple, Barfield argues that Qumran was a center for prophecy.
Curator at The Israel Museum: ‘The Dead Sea Scrolls may be Most Significant Discovery in 20th Century’
Ido Bruno, Director of the Israel Museum called The Dead Sea Scrolls ‘the most important treasure that the museum holds.’
Dead Sea Scrolls Discovery Reveals Hidden Script
The identification of new letters and words provides new data for the study of the scrolls. One of the fragments may even indicate the existence of a hitherto unknown manuscript.
20 Dead Sea Scrolls in Major Israeli Antiquities Exhibition in Denver
The large-scale exhibition features some 600 artifacts, including a stone weighing 3 tons from the Western Wall and 20 Dead Sea Scrolls.
New Dead Sea Scroll Translation Reveals Anti-Temple Calendar
A group of researchers from Haifa University pieced together fragments that made up the last of the Dead Sea Scrolls, discovering that the Essene sect that lived near the Dead Sea during the Second Temple era followed a calendar vastly different than the calendar used by the Jews, indicating what may have been the motivation for the sect choosing a desolate and isolated location to practice a type of Judaism that was essentially heretical.
Dead Sea Scroll Exhibit Cancelled as Germany Questions Israeli Ownership
The German government has not issued a guarantee to Israel that would block the Palestinians from claiming the Dead Sea Scrolls as their own.
Dead Sea Scrolls Written by Celibate Jewish Essene “Monks”, Qumran Skeletons Confirm
The Essenes were contemporary with other Jewish sects such as the Pharisees and Sadducees. Nagar compared them to Christian monks.
