Search the full bibliography

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Since the Center began in 1995, it has maintained a weekly online bibliography of the latest in Dead Sea Scrolls scholarship. The Current Bibliography is posted every Monday. The cumulative Online Bibliography now features more than 21,000 entries; we are gradually expanding the database to encompass entries dating from the beginnings of scrolls research. Search the full bibliography!

Take a Virtual Qumran Tour

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Orion’s Virtual Qumran features a video tour of the site led by archaeologist Professor Jodi Magness, of the University of North Carolina, as well as information pages on the Scrolls and the people who produced them. TAKE the Tour!

Upcoming Events

Greenfield Scholars seminar

March 26, 2019 12:30–14:00

Greenfield Scholars seminar

April 4, 2019 12:30–14:00

Greenfield Scholars seminar

May 14, 2019 12:30–14:00

Greenfield Scholars seminar

June 12, 2019 12:30–14:00

Orion Center Symposium

The Sixteenth International Orion Symposium: "The Dead Sea Scrolls at Seventy: Clear a Path in the Wilderness"

More Orion Center News

Now Published!

  • Meghillot: Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls 14 (2019)
    Edited by Jonathan Ben-Dov and Menahem Kister; published by Haifa University, The Orion Center/Hebrew University, and the Bialik Institute.
    Meghillot-Journal

  • The Religious Worldviews Reflected in the Dead Sea Scrolls Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, 28–30 May, 2013. Edited by Ruth A. Clements, Menahem Kister and Michael Segal. Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 127. Leiden: Brill, 2018. https://brill.com/view/title/39295

Scholarships and Internships

Dead Sea Scrolls Online

The Israel Museum and the Israel Antiquities Authority have put online searchable digital images of many of the scrolls in their collections. The Cambridge University Library has done the same with its manuscripts of the Damascus Document and the Aramaic Levy Document. Click here to access these collections.

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