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Dead Sea Scrolls - Wikipedia Dating from the 3rd century BCE to the 1st century CE, [1] the Dead Sea Scrolls include the oldest surviving manuscripts of entire books later included in the biblical canons, including deuterocanonical manuscripts from late Second Temple Judaism and extrabiblical books
Dead Sea Scrolls | Definition, Discovery, History, Facts - Britannica Dead Sea Scrolls, ancient, mostly Hebrew, manuscripts (of leather, papyrus, and copper) first found in 1947 on the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea Discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls is among the more important finds in the history of modern archaeology
What Are the Dead Sea Scrolls and What Do They Prove? The Dead Sea Scrolls contain portions of every book of the Hebrew Bible (except the Book of Esther), along with apocryphal and sectarian texts unique to the Qumran community
What Are the Dead Sea Scrolls? - Biblical Archaeology Society Many of the ritual and community practices of the Qumran covenanters, who lived near the Dead Sea and who produced what we call the Dead Sea Scrolls, have impressive parallels among New Testament Christians
Dead Sea Scrolls - The Free Dictionary A group of scrolls and scroll fragments of leather, parchment, and papyrus, mostly dating from the last two centuries bc, that contain passages from books of the Hebrew Scriptures and from apocryphal biblical books as well as sectarian writings
The Dead Sea Scrolls | National Endowment for the Humanities About a mile inland from the northwest shore of the Dead Sea, a Bedouin goatherd known as Mohammed edh-Dhib (Mohammed the Wolf, in translation) tossed a rock into a cave and, hearing it break a piece of pottery, decided to take a closer look
Scrolls from the Dead Sea - Library of Congress Jewish fortress of ancient Palestine situated on a butte west of the Dead Sea; last stronghold of the Zealots who committed suicide rather than surrender to the Romans
The Dead Sea Scrolls - Introduction The Qumran Caves Scrolls preserve a large range of Jewish religious writings from the Second Temple period, including parabiblical texts, exegetical texts, hymns and prayers, wisdom texts, apocalyptic texts, calendrical texts, and others
Dead Sea Scrolls - World History Encyclopedia The Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS) are a collection of scrolls found in the desert east of Jerusalem on the shore of the Dead Sea They represent the largest manuscript collections of texts from the Second Temple Period found in the area of Judah, an area notorious for its lack of manuscripts