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 ...

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 ...

Five of the successful seeds came from either Masada or the Qumran Caves, where the famous Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. The sixth seed came from caves at Wadi Makukh. “It’s quite ...

and presented an excellent survey of the significance of the complete Isaiah manuscript found in the first Qumran cave. But more recently books on the scrolls have been appearing in rapid succession.

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 ...

The West Bank is comprised of an estimated 2,600 archaeological and religious sites, including some related to significant periods of Jewish history like the Qumran Caves, Sebastia, and Shiloh.