The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), a body of the Israeli government that oversees national artifacts and sites, rejected ...

Subsequent to that first discovery, eleven different caves have been found at Qumran. And new discoveries are expected even now. Among the caves were found, then, thousand of fragments of ...

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 ...

(credit: Emil Aladjem, Israel Antiquities Authority) In 1949, archaeologists discovered several leather tefillin cases in a cave near Qumran, where the first Dead Sea Scrolls were found.

Where were the Dead Sea Scrolls found? They were found in eleven different caves in Qumran, a site near the Dead Sea. Who put the Scrolls in the caves? A community living in Qumran - a Jewish sect ...

Much of my early work has focused on the Jewish prayers known as the Thanksgiving Hymns (Hebr. Hodayot) from Qumran Caves 1 and 4. My recent research on these and other prayers uses new integrative ...