Secrets of the Dead Sea Scrolls

1991 · Nancy W Porter, Stacy Keach, WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.), Films for the Humanities (Fi

The discovery of the Dead Sea scrolls has prompted controversy over who wrote them. Critics charge that the scholarly team in charge of the scrolls have not given proper access to the scrolls to other scholars and that Jewish scholars have been notably absent from the team. Discusses recent reviews of the archaeology of the site which shed new light on the Qumran community and the Essenes.