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Dead Sea Scrolls

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https://scrapbox.io/files/67b4408287e89dc300cabed6.jpeg The Dead Sea Scrolls are ancient documents found in caves around the Dead Sea, between present-day Israel and Jordan. Containing the oldest manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible, they have great religious and historical significance. [Characteristics of the Dead Sea Scrolls] Thought to date between around 250 BCE and 70 CE. Many are written in Hebrew, also including documents in Aramaic, Greek, and Nabataean. Many are written on parchment, with some on cowhide or papyrus. They are thought to have been copied by followers of a Jewish sect called the Essenes. [Contents of the Dead Sea Scrolls] The canonical text of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) Old Testament apocrypha and the group of documents called “pseudepigrapha.” Sectarian documents (rules and ritual books of the Qumran community, etc.). [Discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls] First discovered in 1947 New fragments were found in Cave 8 in the Nahal Hever wadi from late 2019 to early 2020.

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