Scripture
The War Scroll from Qumran
Of the seven original Dead Sea Scrolls recovered from the caves above the Wadi Qumran in 1947, the most unusual is the manuscript that scholars now call the War Scroll, and that…
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The Community Rule and the Yahad of the Dead Sea
Among the seven original Dead Sea Scrolls that came into the hands of the antiquities market in 1947 and were acquired by the Syrian Orthodox Metropolitan Athanasius Yeshue Samuel and by the…
Scripture
The Damascus Document
A wooden reading lectern is set inside a limestone cave. An oil lamp flickers on a low stone ledge, throwing a circle of warm light across an open parchment. Above the lectern,…
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The Dead Sea Scrolls
The seven scrolls that came out of the caves in the winter of 1947 were the beginning, not the whole story. What followed was fifteen years of Bedouin and archaeological finds, a…