The Dead Sea Scrolls and ... traditions have this ancient history and have been copied and preserved for thousands of years,” Levitt said. The Dead Sea Scrolls consist of 2,500 fragments that ...

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 ...

Unlike the recent cases of forgeries assumed to be Dead Sea Scrolls fragments, all of these small pieces were unearthed in the official excavations of the Qumran caves, and were never passed through ...