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Dead Sea Scrolls

The Dead Sea Scrolls — also called the Qumran scrolls — were found around 1947 in the caves of Qumran, in Israel. They are book scrolls and fragments of book scrolls, written in the last centuries before the beginning of our era. There are thousands of fragments of roughly a thousand different book scrolls. Only around ten scrolls have been preserved (almost) complete.

Biblical Dead Sea Scrolls

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