Dead Sea Scrolls

This Jewish Aramaic manuscript is the oldest Manuscript, only preceded by the Dead Sea Scrolls and can be found at the Schoyen Collection

Qumran Jar that held Dead Sea Scroll

Pictures and text illuminating the caves of Qumran

More than six decades since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls — and thousands of years after they were written — Israel on Tuesday put 5,000 images of the ancient biblical artifacts online in a partnership with Google.

Archaeological discoveries in recent years that have shed light on Jewish history and the Old Testament.

Espírito audaz e muita perspicácia: eis os predicados exigidos tanto dos componentes da equipe do Pe. Roland de Vaux quanto posteriormente, dos estudiosos que decifrariam os enigmas dos objetos encontrados nas cavernas e ruínas próximas ao Mar Morto. Thiago de …

An inkwell from the Scriptorium of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Khirbet Qumran, before 68 AD

Containers for the Dead Sea Scrolls

The Israel Museum in Jerusalem in partnership with Google digitized the scrolls, which are considered the most significant archaeological find of the 20th century. The scrolls were digitized using a $250,000 camera and went online today.

THE TEMPLE SCROLL is the longest Dead Sea Scroll (over 28 feet, preserved almost to its entire length) and one of the most important. The Temple Scroll is sectarian, that is, it belongs to the Dead Sea sect, identified by most scholars with the Essenes. It was composed, most probably, in the second part of the second century B.C.E., approximately 200 years before the destruction of the Second Temple. For more, click on the link.

Dead Sea scrolls

A description of the work and laws governing the practice of the scribes who wrote the Scrolls.

A new study of more than 200 textile fragments recovered from the Qumran caves suggests the authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls were part of

manuscripts from around the world spanning 5000 years of human civilization

About Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, including photos from the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit created by the Israel Antiquities Authority from the collections of the Israel National Treasures and produced by Discovery Times Square and The Franklin Institute.