June 9, 2011
When the Dead Sea Scrolls were first discovered, hope in theological and scholarly circles soared higher than ever before. Due to their being found in such close proximity to Jerusalem and being written in Hebrew and Aramaic, the Dead Sea Scrolls immediately received more attention from the international press than the Nag Hammadi Texts [found […]
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June 9, 2011
Even before the discovery of the Scrolls in 1948 by some Bedouin in the caves near the archaeological ruins of Qumran by the Dead Sea, one of them had already been well know for many years. The Damascus Document (CD, 4Q266-73, 5Q12, 6Q15) had been found by a Jewish scholar, Solomon Shechter in a Geniza […]
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