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In the Judean wilderness of Palestine, on the shore of the Dead Sea, the windswept desert ruins of Qumran still conceal ancient secrets. The human remains and artifacts unearthed by archeologists fifty years ago are only now beginning to tell the story of the people who, in desperation, hid the Dead Sea Scrolls in the caves above Qumran, never to return. They were people of faith and dreams: Aligning themselves with heaven over a period of two hundred years, they prepared for the end of days -

Who wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls? What story do they tell? What is the most current research on the archeology of the site where they were found? How has a new breed of scientific scholars changed what we know of these ancient people and their records? These are the driving questions behind the documentary The Haunted Desert:Archeology and the Dead Sea Scrolls.In nineteen fifty one Father Roland De Vaux, an Dominican priest working at the prestigious Ecole Biblique in Jerusalem, organized a team o

From the beginning, The Dead Sea Scrolls have captured the imagination and interest of scholars and the public. Why do the scrolls continue to intrigue us? The scrolls tell us of a time of ferment and change, of apocalyptic visions and prophets and they shed light on the earliest days ofJudaism and Christianity. After fifty years of scroll research, a film from the diverse perspectives of biblical scholarship, science and technology will bring this legend to life. It is the exploration of the sc