In 1947, shepherds discovered the now-famed Dead Sea Scrolls in the Judaean Desert’s 11 Qumran Caves. While their exact genesis is somewhat contested, these ancient Jewish manuscripts (many of which ...
The Dead Sea Scrolls are religious manuscripts that were written from the third century B.C.E. to the first century C.E. They were discovered in the 1940s and ’50s in caves along the shore of the Dead ...