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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural 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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The Book of Jeremiah is now one-seventh longer than the one that appears in some of the 2,000-year-old manuscripts known as the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Scholars Seeking To Correct 'Mistakes' In The Bible ( AP 2011
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The Book of Jeremiah is now one-seventh longer than the one that appears in some of the 2,000-year-old manuscripts known as the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Scholars Seeking To Correct 'Mistakes' In The Bible ( AP 2011
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But when the Dead Sea Scrolls were found in 1948, they found that the text that we had been using and the text they found in the Dead Sea Scrolls were a thousand years older, and they were identical.
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The latest and most bizarre fillip to the scandal of the Dead Sea Scrolls has been the dismissal of Dr. John Strugnell, the Harvard Divinity School professor who had been chief editor of the project, by the Israeli Antiquities Authority, which gained control of the Scrolls following the Zionist seizure of East Jerusalem and the West Bank in
The Swedish Promise Heilbroner, Robert L. 1980
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The Book of Jeremiah is now one-seventh longer than the one that appears in some of the 2,000-year-old manuscripts known as the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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When holy men transcribed books of the Hebrew Bible into what became familiarly known as the Dead Sea Scrolls, we're guessing they never imagined a day when their work would be available to anyone in the world, thanks to the Internet.
News - latimes.com lknelson 2011
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"It's a more complicated challenge," Wolf said, referring to the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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"It's a more complicated challenge," Wolf said, referring to the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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I still teach my classes and I still write books and articles about the Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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The starkness that I saw in those biblical stories is there as well in the other things I have discussed—the medieval paintings and cathedral architecture and the Dead Sea Scrolls and gospel album covers and Philo of Alexandria and “Amazing Grace.”
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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