For the first time in more than a decade, an Old Testament scroll is available to view in person in the United States. The scroll, known as 4Q41, a fragment from the Dead Sea Scrolls that includes ...

The ancient Dead Sea Scrolls likely are much older than originally thought, ... "Out of 1,000 manuscripts, a bit more than 200 are what we call biblical Old Testament," Popovic told CNN.

They verify the Old Testament. Before the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered, the earliest known Hebrew Bible manuscript dated from the 10 th century A.D. At the time, there was no “Bible,” per se.

Radiocarbon dating requires destroying small samples of the fragile scrolls. Normand Blouin / AFP via Getty Images. In 1947, a Bedouin shepherd tossed a rock into a cave near the Dead Sea—and he ...

The study, led by Mladen Popovic, a professor of Old Testament Studies at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, and published in the journal PLOS One last week, used an AI-powered ...

Biblical scrolls from the Dead Sea region have demonstrated the high degree of fidelity with which the Old Testament text was transmitted, and incidentally have given some indication of possible ...

The historic value of the Dead Sea Scrolls _ essentially, the earliest copy of the Bible ever discovered _ is great enough that museums around the world vie to exhibit some of the 100,000 ...

The scrolls gave historians great insight into the ancient forms of these languages, and they also changed the way scholars studied the Old Testament.For example, the scroll with the most complete ...

Dead Sea Scrolls mystery deepens as AI finds manuscripts to be much older than thought. ... containing passages of the Old Testament from over 1,800 to 2,000 years ago. Until now, ...

Some of the Dead Sea Scrolls may be up to a century older than previously thought, potentially revising our understanding of how these ancient texts were produced. This new assessment, based on AI ...