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1.The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in eleven caves along the northwest shore of the Dead Sea between the years 1947 and 1956. The area is 13 miles east of Jerusalem and is 1300 feet below sea level. The mostly fragmented ... 8. In the Scrolls are found never before seen psalms attributed to King David and Joshua.
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1. The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered between 1947-1956 in 11 caves (5 by Beduin; 6 by archaeologists) on the upper northwest shore of the Dead Sea. The area is 13 miles east of Jerusalem, and is -1300 ft. below sea level (Jerusalem ... 11) Scrolls related to those found in the caves around Qumran were also found at Masada,
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Qumran Caves - Who Found the Dead Sea Scrolls in the Qumran Caves? There’s a great story behind who found the Dead Sea Scrolls in the first caves just above Qumran in Israel. Here it is! ... You are here: Archaeology >> Learn More about the Dead Sea Scrolls >> Qumran Caves...
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www.allaboutarchaeology.org/qumran-caves-faq.htm
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Some scholars believe that cave 7 contains some NT manuscripts, though 1 John is not among them. The fragments are in Greek, but only by rather creative and ingenious extrapolations can one make them a part of the NT. ... It is very unlikely that the Qumran community would have any part of the NT in its belongings,
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They found a shard of pottery that's about 3,000 years old—a thousand years older than the Dead Sea Scrolls. This would have been about the time of the legendary King David. Pottery inscribed with ink is called an ostracon.
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www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=document-found-older-than-dead-sea-08-11-07
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It is a commonplace that every book of the Hebrew Bible except Esther has been found among the Dead Sea Scrolls. Actually, this is true only if you count Ezra-Nehemiah as one book-as, indeed, it is so regarded in Jewish tradition- since only a fragment of Ezra, but not Nehemiah, has been identified.
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The Dead Sea scrolls are one of the greatest discoveries in archaeological history. The ancient texts first came to light in 1947, when a young goat herder stumbled upon some manuscripts hidden in a cave at Khirbat Qumrān—about a dozen miles (19 kilometers) from the ancient West Bank city of Jericho.
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Qumran - Center of a Jewish sect of the Second Temple period and the Dead Sea Scrolls found in caves nearby ... The Dead Sea Scrolls; ... In the 1950s and 1960s, many caves in the canyons of the Judean Desert along the Dead Sea were surveyed and excavated. The documents found there, and in the caves around Qumran,
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DUBLIN, July 25: The discovery of an ancient Book of Psalms in a bog in the south Irish midlands was hailed on Tuesday by the National Museum as the country’s equivalent of the Dead Sea Scrolls. ... The Museum is currently running a major exhibition “Kingship and Sacrifice” centred on two bodies found preserved in bogs.
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