The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Biblia.com)

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The Dead Sea Scrolls are among the most interesting and important archaeological discoveries ever made, and the excavation of the Qumran community itself has provided invaluable information about Judaism and the Jewish world in the last centuries B.C.E. Like the Dead Sea Scrolls, however, the Qumran site continues to be the object of intense scholarly debate. In a book meant to introduce general...

where he attempted to sell them. On June 1, 1954, he placed an ad in the Wall Street Journal offering to sell “The Four Dead Sea Scrolls.” The ad was brought to the attention of Yigael Yadin, Sukenik’s son, who happened to be in the United States at the time. Through middlemen, Yadin purchased the scrolls on behalf of the State of Israel for $250 thousand (and Samuel made a handsome return on his initial investment!). In this way, all seven scrolls from Cave 1 at Qumran came into the possession of

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