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    The Damascus Document is an ancient Hebrew text known from both the Cairo Geniza and the Dead Sea Scrolls. It is considered one of the foundational documents...
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    the "fall of the watchers from heaven" is found in Hebrew in the Damascus Document 2:18 echoing 1 Enoch 13:10. The First Epistle to the Corinthians in...
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    Damascus (/dəˈmæskəs/ də-MAS-kəs, UK also /dəˈmɑːskəs/ də-MAH-skəs; Arabic: دِمَشق, romanized: Dimašq) is the capital and largest city of Syria, the oldest...
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    of the Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran, most prominently in the Damascus Document. This document speaks briefly of the origins of the sect, probably Essenes...
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    Greek), Jubilees, Genesis Apocryphon, 2 and 3 Baruch (Slavonic), the Damascus Document, and visions in Daniel 7:9-14. This book tells of the background and...
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  • Sarianna (2000). "The relationship between the Damascus Document and the Community Rule". The Damascus Document: A Centennial of Discovery. Brill. pp. 85–93...
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    Damascus steel (Arabic: فولاذ دمشقي) refers to the high carbon crucible steel of the blades of historical swords forged using the wootz process in the...
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  • sectarian manuscripts, including writings such as the Community Rule, the Damascus Document, and the War Scroll, which provide valuable insights into the communal...
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    [citation needed] The earliest mention of "Jannes and his brother" in the Damascus Document, states that the two were in league with "Belial", who would later...
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    mentioned in the Fragments of a Zadokite Work (which is also known as The Damascus Document (CD)), which states that during the eschatological age, "Belial shall...
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    Comedy. Routledge. p. 105. ISBN 978-1134536504. "Genesis Apocryphon". Damascus Document. 4Q180. "Genesis 6". Jerusalem Bible. footnote. Matthew 22:30 Deffinbaugh...
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  • its temple plans, and the defence of the Zadokite priesthood in the Damascus Document. There was apparently some question concerning the inclusion of Ezekiel...
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  • Geely CD, a coupe automobile made by Geely Automobile Cairo Damascus or Damascus Document, a text found among the Dead Sea Scrolls Committee Draft, a...
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    stand. A similar regulation is found in the Damascus Document (also found at Qumran) Dead Sea Scrolls Document Ref. No. CD-A]: ...it is holy. No man should...
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    and secular documents Damascus Document Dead Sea Scrolls Dunhuang manuscripts, similar cache of ancient religious and secular documents Elephantine papyri...
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  • The Damascus Protocol was a document given to Faisal bin Hussein on 23 May 1915 by the Arab secret societies al-Fatat and al-'Ahd on his second visit to...
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    of Yadin, believes the scroll was not to be regarded as such but was a document without exceptional significance. Stegemann notes that it is not mentioned...
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    being used for the Messiah(s) in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Messiah - the Damascus Document, the Rule of the Congregation, the Commentary on Genesis, 4Q521 (Messianic...
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    of Yadin, believed the scroll was not to be regarded as such, but was a document without exceptional significance. Stegemann notes that it is not mentioned...
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    such as the Damascus Document, which apparently contains references to an uncertain location referred to by the pseudonym of "Damascus". The writings...
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    Damascus is a census-designated place and an unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. In the early 20th century, there existed...
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  • blasphemy. In one of the texts of the Dead Sea Scrolls, called the Damascus Document, violence against non-Jews (also called Gentiles) is prohibited, except...
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    John of Damascus (Arabic: يوحنا الدمشقي, romanized: Yūḥana ad-Dimashqī; Greek: Ἰωάννης ὁ Δαμασκηνός, romanized: Ioánnēs ho Damaskēnós, IPA: [ioˈanis o...
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  • 2024, Israel conducted an airstrike on the Iranian embassy complex in Damascus, Syria, destroying the building housing its consular section. Sixteen people...
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    manuscript of the Hebrew Bible in Hebrew. Michigan Codex (Torah), 10th century Damascus Pentateuch, 10th century First Gaster Bible in the British Library, 10th...
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    The Damascus affair of February 1840 was the disappearance of an Italian monk and his servant, for which a large number of Jews were summarily tortured...
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  • the task of publishing the Cave 4 fragments of the Damascus Document. His work on the Damascus Document not only brought its manuscripts to publication but...
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    Enochic literature, the Dead Sea Scrolls (the Genesis Apocryphon, the Damascus Document, 4Q180), Jubilees, the Testament of Reuben, 2 Baruch, Josephus, and...
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    Drower, E.S. (1963). A Pair of Naṣoraean Commentaries (Two Priestly Documents): The Great First World and The Lesser First World. Leiden: Brill. Häberl...
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  • Sea Sect saw prohibition of polygamy as coming from the Pentateuch (Damascus Document 4:20–5:5, one of the Dead Sea Scrolls). Christianity adopted a similar...
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