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Dead Sea Scrolls Research Council: Fragments

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Enigmas, secrets—an aura of mystery still surrounds the Dead Sea Scrolls, as the titles of these videos attest. And the mere fact that videos are being produced for a mass-market on this once-obscure subject indicates that interest in the scrolls is as high now as when they were first discovered in the late 1940s and early 1950s near the site of Qumran, on the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea.

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Footnotes

1.

See Harry M. Orlinsky, “The Bible Scholar Who Became An Undercover Agent,” BAR 18:04.

2.

Reviewed by Hershel Shanks, “Is the Vatican Suppressing the Dead Sea Scrolls?” BAR 17:06.

3.

See “The ‘Pierced Messiah’ Text—An Interpretation Evaporates,” BAR 18:04, and James D. Tabor, “A Pierced or Piercing Messiah?—The Verdict Is Still Out,” BAR 18:06.

4.

See Michael O. Wise and James D. Tabor, “The Messiah at Qumran,” BAR 18:06.