By Dr. Don Bierle, FaithSearch President

This year, 2022, marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of the first Dead Sea Scroll discoveries in 1947, by some shepherds exploring caves on the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea. Subsequently, an amazing library of hundreds of scrolls and thousands of fragments were uncovered in eleven caves, with texts dating from the third century B.C. to the first century A.D.

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By Dr. Don Bierle, FaithSearch President

Here is a quick rundown of some recent and notable discoveries, as announced in established journals. 

Second Synagogue Found in First Century Magdala

People in the U.S. are accustomed to seeing several churches located in the same city, sometimes only a block apart. It is not so much the case with synagogues. Only a few synagogues have ever been found in the whole of the Galilee, much less two in the same community.