dead sea scrolls in English

noun
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a collection of Hebrew and Aramaic manuscripts discovered in pottery storage jars in caves near Qumran between 1947 and 1956. Thought to have been hidden by the Essenes or a similar Jewish sect shortly before the revolt against Roman rule ad 66–70, the scrolls include texts of many books of the Bible; they are some 1,000 years older than previously known versions.

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1. A portion of the book of Psalms from the Dead Sea Scrolls.

2. Using infrared, we've been able to read even the darkest corners of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

3. Tiny fragments of the famous Dead Sea Scrolls, recently excavated by Israeli Archeologists, have gone on display

4. Before long, with the publication of A Facsimile Edition of the Dead Sea Scrolls, photographs of the previously unpublished scrolls became easily accessible.

5. Belial in the Dead Sea Scrolls: In these texts, we have Belial taking on a very prominent role in the battle of “light vs darkness”

6. In The War of the Sons of Light and the Sons of Darkness (1QM), one of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Belial is the leader of the Sons of Darkness: ‘But for corruption thou

7. In The War of the Sons of Light and the Sons of Darkness (1QM), one of the Dead Sea scrolls, Belial is the leader of the Sons of Darkness: 'But for corruption thou hast made Belial, an angel of hostility