Library Guides: RELIGION & PHILOSOPHY: Research Guide: Dead Sea Scrolls

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Online and Raugust Library resources for learning more about the Dead Sea Scrolls

The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible
Call Number: REF 221.4 D34

Presents the world's most ancient version of the Bible. Offers new and striking textual readings that clarify millennia-old puzzles, restores lost psalms, reveals previously unknown details about the lives of biblical figures, and provides new information on how the Hebrew Bible was created.
Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Call Number: REF 296.155 En197

2 volumes.
The Dead Sea Scrolls: An Essential Guide
Call Number: 296.155 F646d

Search for the term "Dead Sea Scrolls" in quotation marks to find relevant materials in the library's collections.

Gnostic Society Library: Dead Sea Scrolls Resources
A compilation of internet resources offering information on the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Digital Dead Sea Scrolls
A website from the Israel Museum that gives users access to searchable, fast-loading, high-resolution images of the scrolls, as well as short explanatory videos and background information on the texts and their history.
Library of Congress: Scrolls from the Dead Sea
A Library of Congress exhibit that describes the historical context of the scrolls and the Qumran community from whence they may have originated; it also relates the story of their discovery 2,000 years later.
Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature
A research center at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
Scans and images of the Scrolls, from the Israel Antiquities Authority.