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This vast manuscript treasury, known as the "Dead Sea Scrolls", includes a small number of near-complete Scrolls and tens of thousands of Scroll fragments, representing over 900 different texts written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek. Excavation over the years has extended outside the Qumran area, south along the western shore of the Dead Sea ...
The institute's extensive map collection has recently been made available online free of charge. The Dead Sea Scrolls. The institute played a significant role in the discovery and preservation of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The scrolls contain approximately eight hundred separate works written between the 2nd century BCE and the 1st century CE.
e. 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 over a period of 10 years, between 1946 and 1956, at the Qumran Caves near Ein Feshkha in the West Bank, on the northern shore of the Dead Sea. Dating from the 3rd century BCE to the 1st ...
May 9, 2024 · Dead Sea Scrolls, ancient, mostly Hebrew, manuscripts (of leather, papyrus, and copper) first found in 1947 on the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea. Discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls is among the more important finds in the history of modern archaeology. Study of the scrolls has enabled scholars.
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Apr 16, 2023 · The Dead Sea Scrolls are considered by many to be the most significant archaeological find of the 20th century. From 1947 to 1956, thousands of scroll fragments were uncovered from the caves near Qumran, located on the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea. Over the following decades, teams of scholars pieced these scrolls together to reconstruct ...
Since the Center began in 1995, it has maintained a weekly online bibliography of the latest in Dead Sea Scrolls scholarship. The Current Bibliography is posted every Monday. The cumulative Online Bibliography now features more than 21,000 entries; we are gradually expanding the database to encompass entries dating from the beginnings of ...
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Dr. Abegg is Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies and former Co-Director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Institute. His past work includes translations, notes, and introductions to the biblical scrolls in The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible (HarperSanFrancisco, 1999) and non-biblical texts in The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Translation (HarperSanFrancisco, 1996 ...
