While there's still room for speculation, one possible bridge is the community at Qumran-the ascetic desert sect best known for creating the Dead Sea scrolls. Like orthodox Jews, the Qumran ...

It is in that rugged cliff face, on the banks of the Dead Sea, in this arid, desolate climate, that the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered at the site known as Khirbet Qumran. The Scrolls were ...

The hymns of the Qumran sect, now completely translated and accessible to the layman for the first time, give readers an authentic feeling of ...

Chapter 164 of the National Active & Retired Federal Employees will meet at 11 a.m. May 15 at the Wood Grill Buffet in ...

In 1946 or 1947, a Bedouin goatherd found a number of ancient texts in a cave overlooking the Dead Sea and the ruins of the town of Qumran in the West Bank. Searches over the next decade yielded ...

The scrolls, the first of which were found in 1947 by a Bedouin shepherd in the Qumran Caves at the north end of the Dead Sea, contain the earliest known copies of biblical books, along with other ...

They were first discovered in 1947 in caves near the ancient Jewish settlement of Qumran. Since then, hundreds more have been found where they were carefully hidden away some 2,000 years ago.

In the shadowy world where religion meets archaeology, scientists, collectors, and schemers are racing to find the most precious relics. Hand copied around 1400, a Wycliffe New Testament on ...

Further excavations revealed more scrolls scattered across 11 more caves, at a site now known as Khirbet Qumran. The scrolls, ...

The Academy of the Hebrew Language, the official governing body of the modern Hebrew language, announced on Monday that from now on the Hebrew alphabet will consist of 23 letters. The name of the ...

It is in that rugged cliff face, on the banks of the Dead Sea, in this arid, desolate climate, that the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered at the site known as Khirbet Qumran. The Scrolls were ...