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Dead Sea Scrolls
Websites
Online version of the Library of Congress exhibition telling the story of the discovery and setting the scrolls in their historical context. Images and translations of scroll fragments.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/scrolls/
Includes links; bibliography; ancient and modern timelines; investigators and historic figures; glossary; and inventory of manuscripts.
http://www.flash.net/~hoselton/deadsea/deadsea.htm
Describes manuscripts of the book, or mentioning the prophet.
http://home.earthlink.net/~ironmen/qumran.htm
Press announcement from the UA Physics Department reporting new c-14 dates which agree with the published paleographic dates.
http://www.physics.arizona.edu/physics/public/dead-sea.html
Article by David Ramsay proposing that the Essenes were once the predominant party within Judaism.`
http://www.kw.igs.net/~dukerman
With links to photographs of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Qumran caves, surrounding area and 2000-year-old artifacts, take a virtual trip to experience this archaeological discovery.
http://www.click2religion.com/dead_sea/dead_sea_ch1.htm
New York Times article about the scientific arguments over the scrolls' origins.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/2...ience/sciencespecial/24SCRO.html
The Gnostic Society Library's collection of texts from the Scrolls, a listing of internet resources for further research, and a reading list.
http://gnosis.org/library/dss/dss.htm
History, discovery, and content of the famous scrolls.
http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/wsrp...ucational_site/dead_sea_scrolls/
The Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago explains its work on the scrolls, and argues against the view of them in the Library of Congress exhibition as the library of the Essene sect.
http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/SCR/Scrolls.html
Timetable of discovery and debate, with several links.
http://virtualreligion.net/iho/dss_2.html