From darkness to light: the scrolls of Qumran
17 April 2018
At the Israel Museum, the Shrine of the Book houses the Dead Sea Scrolls, the oldest extant biblical manuscripts.
The Israel Museum was established in 1965 as a national institution to preserve the history of this land, especially that concerning archaeology. This archaeology relates the stories of many Peoples who lived here and who left physical traces of their cultures.
Since its construction, the Shrine of the Book has housed the Dead Sea Scrolls, the oldest extant biblical manuscripts, discovered between 1947 and 1956, near Qumran.
Friar GREGOR GEIGER, ofm
Studium Biblicum Franciscanum
They were found in eleven caves, and they comprise the remains of about nine hundred and fifty scrolls. [...]