Dead Sea Scrolls Discovery
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Dead Sea Scrolls Discovery
Who or what? The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of 972 texts discovered between 1946 and 1956 at Khirbet Qumranin the West Bank. They were found in caves about a mile inland from the northwest shore of the Dead Sea, from which they derive their name.[1]
Time Period? The texts are written in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and Nabataean, mostly on parchment but with some written on papyrus and bronze.[2] The manuscripts have been dated to various ranges between 408 BCE and 318 CE.[3]
Something relevant in terms of context, political, religious, culturally, economics.
There were debates that the scrolls were actually written by priests in Jerusalem, and moved to Qumran due to the Roman siege of Jerusalem in 70 AD.
Significance
The texts are of great historical, religious, and linguistic significance because they include the earliest known surviving manuscripts of works explaining stories and clarifying some events that were in the Hebrew Bible, along with extra-biblical manuscripts which preserve evidence of the diversity of religious thought in late Second
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