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- The Dead Sea Scrolls - With links to photographs of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Qumran caves, surrounding area and 2000-year-old artifacts, take a virtual trip to experience this archaeological discovery.
- Dead Sea Scrolls - History, discovery, and content of the famous scrolls.
- Scrolls From the Dead Sea - Online version of the Library of Congress exhibition telling the story of the discovery and setting the scrolls in their historical context. Images and translations of scroll fragments.
- The Mystery of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Sleeping Prophet - A look at Essene life through the eyes of Edgar Cayce and the Dead Sea Scrolls.
- Dead Sea Scrolls Project - The Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago explains its work on the scrolls, and argues against the view of them in the Library of Congress exhibition as the library of the Essene sect.
- Debate Erupts Over Authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls - New York Times article about the scientific arguments over the scrolls' origins.
- Dead Sea Scrolls - The Gnostic Society Library's collection of texts from the Scrolls, a listing of internet resources for further research, and a reading list.
- New Radiocarbon Age Dates for Dead Sea Scrolls - Press announcement from the UA Physics Department reporting new c-14 dates which agree with the published paleographic dates.
- Michigan: A rare glimpse of the Dead Sea Scrolls - [CNN]
- Dead Sea Scrolls to the Forbidden Book Exhibit - Traveling exhibition of Dead Sea Scrolls fragments, ancient Biblical manuscripts, and rare Bibles.
Wikipedia Articles
- The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception - The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception (1991, ISBN 0-552-13878-9) is a non-fiction book by authors Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh. Rejecting the establishment consensus that the Dead Sea scrolls were the work of a marginal Jewish apocalyptic movement, Leigh and Baigent argue that instead the Scrolls were ...
- Dead Sea scrolls - The "Dead Sea Scrolls" comprise roughly 900 documents, including texts from the Hebrew Bible, discovered between 1947 and 1956 in eleven caves in and around the Wadi Qumran (near the ruins of the ancient settlement of Khirbet Qumran, on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea) in the West Bank. ...
- War Rule - The War Rule is a name used for various Dead Sea Scrolls. For example, the 5 line fragment 11Q14 is known by this name, as is the six-line fragment [Sea scrolls/4Q285|4Q285], commonly referred to as the Pierced Messiah text, and 4Q491 the War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness.
- Theodor Gaster - Theodor Herzl Gaster (1906 - 1992) was a Romanian-born American Biblical scholar known for work on comparative religion, mythology and the history of religions. He is noted for his book, "The Dead Sea Scriptures", about the Dead Sea Scrolls as well as his one-volume abridgement of Sir James Frazer's massive 13-volume work "The Golden Bough," to which Gaster contributed updates, corrections and extensive annotations.
- Tanakh at Qumran - The Tanakh is the Hebrew Bible and Qumran is an archaeological site near the Dead Sea. More than two hundred portions of the Tanakh have been found near Qumran, forming part of the Dead Sea Scrolls.