In her book, “Memory and Oblivion: The Secret of the Dead Sea Scrolls,” Elior proposes that another Jewish sect, the Sadduces, authored the Scrolls, a claim that is stirring up controversy among ...

Tour guides shepherding the tourists through the modest desert ruins speak of the scrolls’ origin, a narrative that has been repeated almost since they were discovered more than 60 years ago. Qumran, ...

In the first century of our era there were many sects and schools in Jewish society. We hear about the Essenes, of course, the Jews of Qumran, the Dead Sea Scrolls, who separated themselves from the ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls, one of the most significant archaeological discoveries of the 20th century, have fascinated scholars and historians for decades. Their impact on Judaism and early Christianity ...

John Bergsma, a scholar of religion, writes about the Dead Sea Scrolls and explains through them a Jewish connection to Christianity. Bergsma writes that the Dead Sea Scrolls were found in a cave in ...

In 1947, a chance discovery by Bedouin shepherds uncovered a library frozen in time — the Dead Sea Scrolls, the oldest surviving biblical manuscripts on Earth. But who wrote them? Most scholars point ...