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May 19 Blog

Digital Humanities: How Everyone Can Get a Library Card to the World’s Most Exclusive Collections Online

By: Diane H. Cline

What would happen if the Pope’s library were accidentally burnt? Or what if the Dead Sea Scrolls were damaged in some way? Learn how an emerging field of study is helping to preserve and analyze these artifacts—and how you can help.

Sep 20 Blog

What Happened When

By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff

The Dead Sea Scrolls have a long, complicated and mysterious history and many “facts” have been lost in the intervening years. The following list describes the events surrounding the discovery and acquisition of the scrolls and the players involved.

Apr 16 Blog

Cast of Characters

By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff

A list of prominent biblical scholars, professors, priests and many others who have been involved in the study, publication and protection of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Jul 20 Blog

Bible Artifacts Found Outside the Trench: The Dead Sea Scrolls Discovery

By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff

The Dead Sea Scrolls discovery is so widely celebrated by the scholarly community and the scrolls have played such an important part in Biblical scholarship as the oldest biblical manuscripts that it is sometimes easy to forget that most of them are in fact Bible artifacts found during archaeological looting by Bedouin.

Aug 10 Blog

John C. Trever (1915–2006)

By: Martin Abegg

John C. Trever, the American scholar who photographed the Great Isaiah Scroll and other important Dead Sea Scroll manuscripts in Jerusalem in 1948, died April 29, at his home in Lake Forest, California. He was born November 26, 1915, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. As a post-graduate student in war-torn Jerusalem during the fall of 1947 and the spring of 1948, Trever was literally “found” by the Dead Sea Scrolls when Syrian Orthodox clergy brought them to be evaluated at what is now the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research.

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