dead sea scrolls

Easter approaches and so do stories about our Judeo-Christian roots. Time has a story on an Israeli scholar denying the Essenes existed (of course the other groups noted in Antquities 18 existed and were not legendary as she claims). There are numerous references to such a group and her "renegade sons of Zadok" are very much what the Essenes are described as being. What we may be dealing with here is a name that the group itself did not prefer and so it does not appear in the Scrolls. The reply by Charlesworth on the matter in Time is short and to the

At the Near East Archaeological Society meetings in Providence, RI, this Friday, Dead Sea Scrolls experts Peter Flint and Martin Abegg announced and discussed the discovery of a new scroll fragment from Qumran.  On its own, it doesn't seem very exciting compared to most of the Scrolls--just a fragment of Nehemiah 3:14-15 with names of people involved in rebuilding the wall in Jerusalem and the locations at which they worked.

This entry is an interview in mp3 format. It was done for Moody Broadcasting's Prime Time and discusses the digitizing of the Dead Sea Scrolls. It aired last week. Enjoy.

Click here to play digitizing of the Dead Sea Scrolls.