Judaean Desert or Judean Desert (Arabic: برية الخليل, romanized: Bariyah al-Khalil, Hebrew: מִדְבַּר יְהוּדָה, romanized: Midbar Yehuda) is a desert in...

Discoveries in the Judaean Desert (DJD) is the official 40-volume publication that serves as the editio princeps for the Dead Sea Scrolls. It is published...

to a rain shadow: this is the Judaean Desert. The climate, accordingly, moves between Mediterranean in the west and desert climate in the east, with a strip...

Hellenistic Jewish settlement at the site of Khirbet Qumran in the eastern Judaean Desert in the West Bank. The caves are located about 1.5 kilometres (1 mi)...

the Bar Kokhba revolt. Most of the refuge caves were located in the Judaean Desert, nestled within steep cliffs far away from settlements, many overlooking...

The Judaean Mountains, or Judaean Hills (Hebrew: הרי יהודה, romanized: Harei Yehuda) or the Hebron Mountains (Arabic: تلال الخليل, romanized: Tilal al-Khalīl...

called by the Jews êmêq Berâkâh ("valley of blessing"), situated in the Judaean Desert, in the proximity of Teqo'a near Khirbet Berêkût, west of Khirbet Teqû'a...

romanized: hanNégev) or Negeb (Arabic: النقب, romanized: an-Naqab) is a desert and semidesert region of southern Israel. The region's largest city and...

was tempted by the devil after 40 days and nights of fasting in the Judaean Desert. At the time, Satan came to Jesus and tried to tempt him. Jesus having...

Ramlat al-Sab`atayn – a desert in north-central Yemen Wahiba Sands – a desert covering great parts of Oman Judaean Desert – a desert in eastern Israel and...

rock plateau, akin to a mesa. It is located on the eastern edge of the Judaean Desert, overlooking the Dead Sea 20 km (12 miles) east of Arad. Herod the Great...

4Q491–497 fragments were published by Maurice Baillet in Discoveries in the Judaean Desert, volume 7 and comprise a shorter recension of the War Scroll. Two time...

of the Shephelah in the west, to the dry and arid landscapes of the Judaean Desert descending into the Jordan Valley to the east, formed the kingdom's...

Nazir [cs], Nahal Hatzron [cs], Nahal Badar [cs] Nahal Zin, related to the Zin Desert Nahal HaArava Nahal Neqarot [he] Nahal Ramon [he] Nahal Shivya Nahal Paran...

the southwestern part of the Dead Sea in Israel; it is part of the Judaean Desert Nature Reserve. It takes its name from the legendary city of Sodom,...

River and the temptations he suffered while spending forty days in the Judaean Desert, as a preparation for his public ministry. The accounts of Jesus's baptism...

after his baptism, he goes back to Galilee from his temptation in the Judaean Desert. In this early period, he preaches around Galilee and recruits his first...

Miscellaneous Texts from the Judaean Desert (DJD XXXVIII; Oxford: Clarendon, 2000). 29. E. Tov (ed.), The Texts from the Judaean Desert: Indices and an Introduction...

and artificial, found around the archaeological site of Qumran in the Judaean Desert. It is in these caves that the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. Israel...

scrolls are the book by Emanuel Tov, "Revised Lists of the Texts from the Judaean Desert" for a complete list of all of the Dead Sea Scroll texts, as well as...

Textbook of Aramaic, Hebrew and Nabataean Documentary Texts from the Judaean Desert and related material (in Hebrew). Jerusalem: Hebrew University of Jerusalem...

in the Eastern Orthodox Church. Mar Saba organized the monks of the Judaean Desert in a monastery close to Bethlehem in 483, which is considered the mother...

Palestinian tribe of Bedouin Arabs who currently live in the eastern Judaean Desert in the West Bank. In March 1875 Claude R. Conder, leader of the Palestine...

A desert is a landscape where little precipitation occurs and, consequently, living conditions create unique biomes and ecosystems. The lack of vegetation...

disappointment") a later derogatory term, documents discovered in the 1950s in the Judaean Desert confirm that his original name was Simeon ben Kosiba. The name Bar Kokhba...

Heritage status as part of religious traditions of El-Bariyah, the Judaean Desert. The standard Koine Greek texts of the New Testament state that, after...

Confessor (Greek: Χαρίτων; mid-3rd century, Iconium, Asia Minor – c. 350, Judaean desert) was an early Christian monk. He is venerated as a saint by both the...

hold ups had to wait until 1968 for his volume, Discoveries in the Judaean Desert of Jordan V: 4Q158–4Q186, to be published. He reworked his material...

The Judaean Desert, the Dead Sea and the western slopes of the Moab Mountains on the opposite (Jordanian) side are rain-shadowed by the Judaean Mountains...

had visited India and Nepal, or had studied with the Essenes in the Judaean Desert. Modern mainstream Christian scholarship has generally rejected these...