Dead Sea Scrolls

Qumran is a region of the Dead Sea that yielded a treasure trove of Biblical documents.

Seven ancient scrolls, written in Aramaic, Herbrew, and Greek, discovered by Bedouin shepherds in 1947, 13 miles east of Jerusalem turned out to be from the period between 200 B.C. and A.D. 68.

Pictures of Qumran Community scrolls.

Learn about the community scroll, one of the Dead Sea Scrolls found in the Qumran caves, and how it compares with the Benedictine Rule.

Biblical scholars have put forth new theories on the origins of the Dead Sea Scrolls, considered by many to be the greatest archaeological find of the 20th century.

An article from the Library of Congress on the Dead Sea, the area where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found.

CNN World News Story Page basic article on the politics of the Scrolls, the Essenes, the history, with photos.

Map from The World of the Scrolls site showing the Dead Sea Qumran, Masada, Jericho, and Jerusalem.

Article from the Library of Congress introducing the exhibit "The exhibition Scrolls From the Dead Sea: The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Scholarship" to Americans.

Program for studying the scrolls at the Orion Center for the Study of The Dead Sea Scrolls, Hebrew University.

Scrolls from 3rd C. BC - 68 AD include: Psalms, Phylactery, The Community Rule, Calendrical Document, Some Torah Precepts, Enoch, and Hosea Commentary.

Events from February 1947 when a Bedouin shepherd found seven scrolls in jars in a cave to 2000 when "Steve Mason argues that the hypothesis identifying the authors of the Dead Sea scrolls as Essenes ignores & distorts the accounts of Josephus."

Article from Christianity Today on the work of the Dead Sea Scroll scholars Peter Flint, Martin Abegg, and Craig Evans.

Will Varner, Christian Answer Net, explains the anticipation the people of Qumran felt for the Messiah.