Dead Sea scrolls

Dead Sea scrolls
noun
(Old Testament) a collection of written scrolls (containing nearly all of the Old Testament) found in a cave near the Dead Sea in the late 1940s
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the Dead Sea Scrolls provide information about Judaism and the Bible around the time of Jesus

• Topics: ↑Old Testament
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑scroll, ↑roll

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a number of leather, papyrus, and copper scrolls dating from c100 B.C. to A.D. 135, containing partial texts of some of the books of the Old Testament and some non-Biblical scrolls, in Hebrew and Aramaic, and including apocryphal writings, commentaries, hymns, and psalms: found in caves near the NW coast of the Dead Sea beginning in 1947.

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Dead Sea Scrolls,
a collection of ancient papyrus and leather scrolls discovered in several caves in the Qumran Valley near the Dead Sea. They contain the oldest known copies of most of the books of the Bible. Many scrolls have been added since the first ones were found in 1947, most written in Hebrew and Aramaic about 2,000 years ago. They contain comments and explanations on Biblical writing and the monastic rules of the Qumran Community.

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a collection of Hebrew and Aramaic manuscripts discovered in pottery storage jars in caves near Qumran between 1947 and 1956. Thought to have been hidden by the Essenes or a similar Jewish sect shortly before the revolt against Roman rule ad 66 - 70, the scrolls include texts of many books of the Bible; they are some 1,000 years older than previously known versions

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