Google Side-Project Update: Dead Sea Scrolls Are Now Viewable Online

The ancient, fragile pieces of parchment containing the oldest known Bible text are no longer restricted to the scrutiny of glove-wearing museum curators and...

Scholar Claims Dead Sea Scrolls 'Authors' Never Existed

Biblical scholars have long argued that the Dead Sea Scrolls were the work of an ascetic and celibate Jewish community known as the Essenes, which flourished in...

Grand Rapids

TIME's Maggie Sieger tells where to go in Grand Rapids, Mich. For BREAKFAST: The Wealthy Street Bakery, at Wealthy and Union, offers everything from scones to...

Is Jesus In the Dead Sea Scrolls?

The Dead Sea Scrolls are an endless source of sensationalism. Supermarket tabloids would have us believe that these ancient Jewish texts reveal visitations from...

The Computer Keys' Scrolls

The Dead Sea Scrolls are modern archaeology's most important find in terms of understanding ancient Judaism and the origins of Christianity 20 centuries ago. But...

Religion: Secrets of The Dead Sea Scrolls

Oxford scholar Geza Vermes calls it "the academic scandal par excellence of the 20th century." Columbia University's Morton Smith protests that there is "no...

Religion: The Newest of the Dead Sea Scrolls

When Israeli troops occupied the West Bank of the Jordan in 1967, Israel's leading archaeologist, Yigael Yadin, was able to fulfill a dream. Pulling strings with...

Religion: Eyewitness Mark?

Wheeler's eyes were shining. "[It's] the greatest story of our time, the one that will dazzle the entire Christian world, the one that will cause a rebirth in...

Religion: A New Genesis

When scholars got a look at a small fragment of the seventh and last of the Dead Sea Scrolls found in Jordan in 1947, they discovered the name of Lamech, the...

Religion: The Latest on the Scrolls

The Dead Sea Scrolls have already raised more dust in Christendom than anything since Darwin, and will certainly kick up more in years to come. It is well known...