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The Dead
Sea Scrolls are a collection of about 850
documents, including texts from the Hebrew Bible, which
were discovered between 1947 and 1956 in eleven caves
near Qumran, a fortress northwest of the Dead
Sea in Israel (in historical times part of Judea).
They were written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and
Greek, sometime between the 2nd century BC and
the 1st century AD. The texts are important as being practically
the only Jewish Biblical documents from
that period, and because of what they can tell about the
political and religious context. |
