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Dead Sea Scrolls

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Noun

1. dead sea scrolls

(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

Example Sentences:
'the Dead Sea Scrolls provide information about Judaism and the Bible around the time of Jesus'

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Dead Sea Scrolls

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plural noun
a collection of manuscripts in Hebrew and Aramaic discovered in caves near the Dead Sea between 1947 and 1956. They are widely held to have been written between about 100 bc and 68 ad and provide important biblical evidence

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Dead Sea Scrolls

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a number of scrolls dating from about 100 b.c. to about a.d. 70 discovered at various times since 1947 in caves near the Dead Sea: they contain Jewish Scriptural writings and religious writings of an Essene community

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Dead Sea Scrolls

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pl.n.
A group of scrolls and scroll fragments of leather, parchment, and papyrus, mostly dating from the last two centuries BC, that contain passages from books of the Hebrew Scriptures and from apocryphal biblical books as well as sectarian writings. They were discovered between 1947 and 1956 at sites along the Dead Sea and are of great importance for reconstructing the compilation of the Hebrew Scriptures and for understanding Jewish culture in the era immediately preceding the birth of Jesus.

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