The scrolls newly discovered are written entirely in Greek except for God’s name, which is represented in Hebrew as the tetragrammaton (YHWH). Qumran caves near the Dead Sea. (photo: Tamarah via ...

Tiny fragments of the Minor Prophets in Greek show that scribes adapted texts in similar ways to our contemporary versions. Israeli researchers and archaeologists unveiled this week several ...

JERUSALEM — Israeli archaeologists Tuesday announced the discovery of dozens of new Dead Sea Scroll fragments bearing text from the Hebrew Bible and dating back about 1,900 years. The ancient ...

The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls gave us a glimpse into Jewish life at the time of Jesus. What insights do they provide on how his teachings took shape? Dated as early as the second century A.D., ...

This year marks the 75th anniversary of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. “Most of the Christian world, it seems to me, has heard of these famous pre-Christian scrolls, discovered in the Judean ...

The team of scholars charged with publishing the Dead Sea Scrolls has sown bitterness the world over with the way it has managed the 2,000-year-old scrolls, which it took control of in the early ...

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 ...

For years, fragments from the 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls have been sold quietly to evangelical Christian collectors and institutions in the United States — even though Israel regards those sales ...

EVER SINCE the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered by Bedouin shepherds in the 1940s, debate has raged over their exact age. The scrolls, which contain the earliest surviving copies of books from the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The scrolls were first discovered by a Bedouin shepherd inside the West Bank's caves of Qumran ...