In the most commonly told story the shepherd (Muhammed edh-Dhib) threw a rock into a cave in an attempt to drive out a missing animal which he was looking after. The shattering sound of pottery drew...
Some of the Dead Sea Scrolls were copies of the Hebrew scriptures, essentially no different from other copies in circulation at the time. They may have been written in the Temple or...
The Dead Sea Scrolls consist of scriptures and secular documents that were hidden in caves near Qumran on the Dead Sea before 70 CE. The actual manuscripts found near Qumran date from as early as the...