As you leave Jerusalem and go to the south and to the east, toward the Dead Sea, the terrain changes rapidly and starkly. You move off gradually from [the] ... rolling hillside, through the ravines, ...

Biblical scholars have long argued that the Dead Sea Scrolls were the work of an ascetic and celibate Jewish community known as the Essenes, which flourished in the 1st century A.D. in the scorching ...

History was made in 1946 when a group of Bedouin shepherds discovered the Dead Sea Scrolls in the caves of Qumran, located near the Dead Sea in Israel. Inside the caves, archeologists discovered the ...

The end of the world seemed at hand. The sun beat down on the rock-strewn desert and struck shimmering heat waves from the flat, metallic surface of the Dead Sea. In a room of the community, the ...

John Bergsma, a scholar of religion, writes about the Dead Sea Scrolls and explains through them a Jewish connection to Christianity. Bergsma writes that the Dead Sea Scrolls were found in a cave in ...

The archeological find of the 20th century, the Dead Sea Scrolls give amazing insights into the world Jesus Christ lived and died in—and into the New Testament, early Church, and the Catholic faith ...