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    Qumran (Hebrew: קומראן; Arabic: خربة قمران Khirbet Qumran) is an archaeological site in the West Bank managed by Israel's Qumran National Park. It is located...
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    The Dead Sea Scrolls, also called the Qumran Caves Scrolls, are a set of ancient Jewish manuscripts from the Second Temple period. They were discovered...
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    The Qumran Caves (Arabic: كهوف قمران Kuhūf Qumrān; Hebrew: מערות קומראן HaMeara Kumran) are a series of caves, both natural and artificial, found around...
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    The following is a list of the Dead Sea Scrolls from the caves near Qumran. The Dead Sea Scrolls is a collection of manuscripts discovered between 1946...
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  • Qumran is an archaeological site in the West Bank. Qumran may also refer to: Qumran cemetery Qumran Caves, a set of caves in the West Bank 52301 Qumran...
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    "a cornerstone of his theological speculations." For many scholars, the Qumran fragments confirmed The Book of Giants to originally have been an independent...
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    earlier sections of 1 Enoch were preserved among the Dead Sea Scrolls in the Qumran Caves. They were kept by a Judaic splinter group not aligned with the mainstream...
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  • commonly believed to be the Essenes' library. The scrolls were found at Qumran, an archaeological site situated along the northwestern shore of the Dead...
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    following is a list of the Dead Sea Scrolls from the cave 11 near Qumran. Wadi Qumran Cave 11 was discovered in 1956 and yielded 21 texts of Dead Sea Scrolls...
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    considered one of the foundational documents of the ancient Jewish community of Qumran. The Damascus Document is a fragmentary text, no complete version of which...
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  • Sea Scrolls that were first discovered by Bedouin shepherds in 1946 from Qumran Cave 1. The scroll is written in Hebrew and contains the entire Book of...
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    these specific individuals, the Pesharim are important in understanding Qumran's history and culture during the times that their authors lived. Below are...
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    Text or the Aramaic Apocalypse, is one of the Dead Sea Scrolls found at Qumran which is notable for an early messianic mention of a son of God. The text...
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  • Ancient Qumran: A Virtual Reality Tour is the title of a computer-generated film that presents a theoretical reconstruction of the ancient Khirbet Qumran site...
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    following is a list of the Dead Sea Scrolls from the cave 1 near Qumran. Wadi Qumran Cave 1 was discovered for the first time in 1946. The initial discovery...
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    following is a list of the Dead Sea Scrolls from the cave 4 near Qumran. Wadi Qumran Cave 4 was discovered in August 1952, and was excavated from 22–29...
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  • Discipline, is one of the first scrolls to be discovered near the ruins of Qumran, the scrolls found in the eleven caves between 1947 and 1954 are now referred...
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    Digital Library Gault, Brian P. (2010) "Fragments of Canticles at Qumran". Revue de Qumran. p.352 4Q246 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library...
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  • The Qumran Physiognomies was one of the Dead Sea Scrolls, a large collection of scrolls and fragments found near the Qumran community. The document labeled...
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    the editorial team. According to Strugnell, the scroll was found in the Qumran "Cave 11", in 1956, together with the other, already publicized scrolls...
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  • Scrolls discovered at Qumran in the Judean desert. The manuscript fragments used to reconstruct 4QMMT were found in Cave 4 at Qumran in 1953-1959, and kept...
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    Antigonus II Mattathias was the figure known as the Wicked Priest in the Qumran Scrolls. According to Doudna, Antigonus was the figure underlying the 'Wicked...
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  • Great Psalms Scroll (category Qumran)
    Psalms of the thirty-seven discovered among the Dead Sea Scrolls in the Qumran caves. It is one of six Psalms manuscripts discovered in Cave 11. The scroll...
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    Irānshahr or Irānzamīn. Frye, Richard Nelson (October 1962). "Reitzenstein and Qumrân Revisited by an Iranian". The Harvard Theological Review. 55 (4): 261–268...
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    manuscript of the Book of Leviticus written on parchment. It was found at Qumran cave 4 and is dated to the 1st century BCE or 1st century CE. It got the...
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    following is a list of the Dead Sea Scrolls from the cave 2 near Qumran. Wadi Qumran Cave 2 was discovered in February 1952 and soon the Bedouin people...
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    Qumran scrolls, while the other scrolls (group 2) were brought to Qumran from outside, from one or more localities. Several tefillin found at Qumran were...
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    Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in 1946 by Bedouin shepherds in Cave 1 near Qumran, a small settlement in the northwest corner of the Dead Sea. Composed in...
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    Priestly Teacher of Righteousness." Revue de Qumrân 6: 553–558. Callaway, Phillip R. 1988. The History of the Qumran Community. Sheffeld: Sheffeld Academic...
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  • There are about twenty different texts from Qumran that deal with a lunar phase calendar. They are mainly very fragmentary, so the calendar is not completely...
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