The scroll was discovered in the Qumran Cave in the Judean Desert in 1952, about 6 miles outside of Jericho, in the West Bank. It contains two passages from Deuteronomy, 8:5-10 and 5:1–6:1.

Until this discovery, the earliest known Old Testament manuscript was of Codex Leningradensis, which dates to 1008 AD. On the other hand, the Dead Sea Scrolls date back to between 250 BC and 50 AD.

Though basic beliefs remain intact, the Dead Sea Scrolls give slightly different versions of old Biblical stories. The Dead Sea Scrolls, hidden away in Holy Land caves 2,000 years ago and ...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — The Dead Sea Scrolls, hidden away in Holy Land caves 2,000 years ago and unearthed after World War II, are often rated the 20th century’s greatest archeological find. The ...

While the newfound fragments contain references to the Old Testament's books of Leviticus and Nehemiah, none so far refer to a possibly pertinent passage in Job, specifically 13:4 which states ...

Friendship Baptist Church of Owasso hosted the Christian Heritage Foundation and the Ancient Hebrew Scroll Project on Sunday, Jan. 19. This is the only complete set of the Old Testament scrolls in ...

An extremely fragile, ancient Hebrew scroll has been digitally unwrapped for the first time, revealing the earliest copy ever found of an Old Testament Bible scripture, researchers said Wednesday.

The scrolls newly discovered are written entirely in Greek except for God’s name, which is represented in Hebrew as the tetragrammaton (YHWH). Qumran caves near the Dead Sea. (photo: Tamarah via ...

An extremely fragile, ancient Hebrew scroll has been digitally unwrapped for the first time, revealing the earliest copy ever found of an Old Testament Bible scripture, researchers said Wednesday ...

Israeli archaeologists announced this week the discovery of several new sets of Dead Sea Scrolls— ancient fragments of biblical text that have, for the past 70 years, contributed to scholars ...

Researchers at the University of Kentucky have used a new digital reconstruction technique to resurrect one of the earliest known versions of the Old Testament from a Hebrew scroll that was burned ...