Dead Sea Scrolls, ancient leather and papyrus scrolls first discovered in 1947 in caves on the NW shore of the Dead Sea. Most of the documents were written or copied between the 1st cent. B.C. and the first half of the 1st cent. A.D.
The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2007, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
Related content from HighBeam Research on: Dead Sea Scrolls
The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls/The Pesharim and Qumran History: Chaos or Consensus? (Journal of Biblical Literature)
What they found in the caves: let's go to the Scrolls. (Dead Sea Scrolls) (Commonweal)
The Dead Sea Scrolls Concordance. Vol. 1: The Non-Biblical Texts from Qumran (Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society)
John Marco Allegro: The Maverick of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society)
The Dead Sea Scrolls.(The Dead Sea Scrolls: What Have We Learned?)(Brief article)(Book review) (Internet Bookwatch)
The Dead Sea Scrolls (Near Eastern Archaeology)
The Dead Sea Scrolls at Fifty: Proceedings of the 1997 Society of Biblical Literature Qumran Section Meetings (The Catholic Biblical Quarterly)
Can ideas be held hostage? Proprietorship of the Dead Sea Scrolls raises issue of fairness in intellectual inquiry. (Horizons: Religion)... (U.S. News & World Report)
Archaeology as "wild magic": The Dead Sea Scrolls in popular fiction (Journal of American Culture)
The Dead Seas Scrolls and the Origins of the Bible (Journal of Biblical Literature)
Additional search results provided by HighBeam Research, LLC. © Copyright 2005. All rights reserved.
