The Search for More Dead Sea Scrolls Continues

By the end of the 1950s, most scholars and archaeologists concluded that all of the ancient scrolls hidden in the caves of Qumran had been located or lost and that further expeditions would be in vain. But Oren Gutfeld of Hebrew University and Randall Price of Liberty University in Virginia are convinced that this assessment is incorrect, and in 2017 they began digging in caves high above the Dead Sea that had previously been surveyed, but never properly excavated. They completed their third season of digging last week, and plan to resume in 2020. While they have not yet found more scrolls, they’ve discovered ample evidence that they’re looking in the right places, as Amanda Borschel-Dan writes. (Pictures and video can be found at the link below.)