Dead Sea Scrolls
Search for undiscovered Dead Sea Scrolls reveals dispute over West Bank artifacts
By Bob Smietana — February 5, 2019
JERUSALEM (RNS) — An architectural dig looking for Dead Sea Scrolls in the Qumran region has sparked a debate over ownership of artifacts from Israel's past.
Museum of the Bible pulls Dead Sea Scroll fragments found to be forged
By Yonat Shimron — October 22, 2018
(RNS) — This is not the first time the museum has faced questions about the problematic origins of some of its antiquities.
The Dead Sea Scrolls discovery — still riveting after 70 years
By Lauren Markoe — October 5, 2017
(RNS) — 'Biblical Manuscripts dating back to at least 200 BC, are for sale,' read a small ad in The Wall Street Journal, seven years after the discovery of the scrolls.
Scholars say papyrus mentioning Jerusalem-based kingdom may be fake
By Yonat Shimron — October 31, 2016
JERUSALEM (RNS) Some scholars question the document's provenance.
Sifting through religious debris in ‘Dig,’ what’s fact and what’s fiction?
By Kimberly Winston — April 23, 2015
(RNS) The latest episode of "Dig" on the USA Network serves up a heady cocktail of trapdoors, secret chambers and mysterious torch-lit beach rituals.
TV’s ‘Dig’ unrolls a Dead Sea Scroll to unravel a conspiracy
By Kimberly Winston — March 26, 2015
(RNS) What do you get when you combine end-of-the-world scenarios with biblical archaeology in a television action series? "Dig" continues to mix fact and fiction.
‘Dig’ uncovers an ancient Jewish sect and some scary nuns
By Kimberly Winston — March 12, 2015
(RNS) Biblical breastplates, menacing nuns and an apocalyptic Jewish sect. What is behind all that religious jazz in the second episode of “Dig," which aired Thursday (March 12) on the USA Network?
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