Judaean Desert or Judean Desert (Arabic: برية الخليل, romanized: Bariyah al-Khalil, Hebrew: מִדְבַּר יְהוּדָה, romanized: Midbar Yehuda) is a desert in...
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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...
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Judea (redirect from List of Judaean rulers)
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...
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Dead Sea Scrolls (category Judaean Desert)
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)...
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The Judaean Mountains, or Judaean Hills (Hebrew: הרי יהודה, romanized: Harei Yehuda) or the Hebron Mountains (Arabic: تلال الخليل, romanized: Tilal al-Khalīl...
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Valley of Josaphat (category Judaean Desert)
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...
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Bar Kokhba refuge caves (category Judaean Desert)
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...
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Temptation of Christ (redirect from Forty days in the desert)
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...
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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...
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Masada (category Judaean Desert)
rock plateau, akin to a mesa. It is located on the eastern edge of the Judaean Desert, overlooking the Dead Sea 20 km (12 mi) east of Arad. Herod the Great...
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Negev (redirect from Negev desert)
romanized: hanNégev) or Negeb (Arabic: ٱلنَّقَب, romanized: an-Naqab) is a desert and semidesert region of southern Israel. The region's largest city and...
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List of deserts (redirect from African desert)
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...
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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...
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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...
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western shore of the Dead Sea in Israel. Located on the edge of the Judaean Desert at the site of historic Ein Gedi, it falls under the jurisdiction of...
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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...
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Mount Sodom (category Judaean Desert)
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,...
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Qumran Caves (category Judaean Desert)
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...
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Cave of Horrors (category Judaean Desert)
archaeologists have catalogued as Nahal Hever Cave 8 (8Hev) of the Judaean Desert, Israel, where the remains of Jewish refugees from the Bar Kokhba revolt...
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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...
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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...
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Textbook of Aramaic, Hebrew and Nabataean Documentary Texts from the Judaean Desert and related material (in Hebrew). Jerusalem: Hebrew University of Jerusalem...
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A desert is a landscape where little precipitation occurs and, consequently, living conditions create unique biomes and ecosystems. The lack of vegetation...
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had visited India and Nepal, or had studied with the Essenes in the Judaean Desert. Modern mainstream Christian scholarship has generally rejected these...
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protect the biodiversity and natural beauty of the area. The Judaean Desert is popular for "Judaean Camels". Qalqilya Zoo in Qalqilya Governorate, is the only...
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Rain shadow (redirect from Rainshadow desert)
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...
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All that is known about Yeshua comes from documents uncovered in the Judaean Desert. In one of the letters, Yeshua was called the "Resurrection of the camp...
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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...
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with Ba'al-Perazim. There is also a valley near Mount Sodom in the Judaean Desert, called "Wadi Perazim". It is not certain whether the occurrence in...
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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...
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