And find evidence of the continuity of the biblical text.

A point of controversy.

Over a century after its discovery.

“Part of the underlying fabric of contemporary Western culture.”

The Ashkar-Gilson manuscript.

Did the scribes of the Dead Sea scrolls insert their own ideas into the texts?

Why do some of the Scrolls tell loosely biblical stories about angels?

A short history of an enormous discovery.

How new technology is being used to understand the scrolls.

Jews have a reputation for taking books seriously, so it should come as no surprise that Israel is an interesting place for librarians. Where else. . .

The furor over the 19th-century “discovery” of an ancient fragment of Deuteronomy says much about the influence on scholarship of scholars’ ideas, prejudices, and worldviews.

According to the ancient Jewish historian Josephus, the Essenes, an ascetic sect living in Qumran, wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls. But Josephus is far from reliable.

Comparing the 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls with other ancient texts of the Torah can resolve important textual ambiguities.

Minuscule scrolls from Second Temple-era phylacteries, discovered at Qumran, may reveal much about an ancient ritual practice.