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A dusty labyrinth of fragments, tablets, and scrolls begging to be devoured, deciphered and disclosed...inhale at your own risk! |
Archaelogical Sites
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 The Qumran site
Historical Thread
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The scrolls and scroll fragments recovered in the Qumran environs represent a voluminous body of Jewish documents, a veritable "library", dating from the third century B.C.E. to 68 C.E.
The library contains some books or works in a large number of copies, yet others are represented only fragmentarily by mere scraps of parchment. There are tens of thousands of scroll fragments.
According to many scholars, the chief categories represented among the Dead Sea Scrolls are:
Biblical
Those works contained in the Hebrew Bible. All of the books of the Bible are represented in the Dead Sea Scroll collection except Esther.
Apocryphal or pseudepigraphical
Those works which are omitted from various canons of the Bible and included in others.
Sectarian
Those scrolls related to a pietistic commune and include ordinances, biblical commentaries, apocalyptic visions, and liturgical works.
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