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The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered between 1947 and ... caves as students in 1948 (the students got the fragments as gifts from a bishop who supported the work). “The quest that started ...
The Dead Sea Scrolls have been described as one of the ... enduring thick and suffocating dust, and returning with gifts of immeasurable worth for mankind," said IAA director Israel Hasson in ...
“It’s important to remember that the world of Dead Sea Scroll scholarship is reliant ... said the fragments were purchased with donor gifts and “privacy policy does not permit me to release ...
and returning with gifts of immeasurable worth for mankind.” The Dead Sea Scrolls, mostly discovered during the last century, contain the earliest known copies of parts of almost every book of ...
How most of the Dead Sea Scrolls ended up in Israeli hands is ... an American scholar and a British scholar who kept them as souvenirs in the early days after their discovery.
New fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls with writing visible ... to collaborating museums as gifts,” says Dennis Mizzi, a senior lecturer in Hebrew and ancient Judaism at the University of ...
Gayle Anderson reports that for the first time, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library presents eight authentic Dead Sea Scrolls and more than 200 artifacts from the Second Temple period.