Sep 10 Blog
By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff
The Israel Antiquities Authority launched the updated Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library, a website that allows visitors to view and search high-resolution images of the complete Dead Sea Scrolls archive online.
May 19 Blog
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.
Jun 7 Blog
By: Noah Wiener
The harshness of the curse of Ham, his son Canaan and their descendants has been a source of scholarly debate for millennia. A new reading of the Dead Sea Scroll 4Q180-4Q181* provides a fresh perspective on Canaan’s transgression.
May 20 Blog
By: Hershel Shanks
My friend Geza Vermes is dead. He was, most famously, the intellectual leader in the fight to free the Dead Sea Scrolls from the small coterie of scholars who was assigned to publish them but who endlessly procrastinated and wouldn’t let anyone else see them in the meantime.
May 11 Blog
Fifty years have passed since a young scholar named Geza Vermes published the first Dead Sea Scrolls translation of the texts available at the time. The seventh edition of the book, now titled The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English, includes every sufficiently preserved and available Qumran text.
Jun 16 Blog
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