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Qumran
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Qum·ran  (km-rän) also Khir·bet Qumran (kîrbt)
An ancient village of Palestine on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea in the West Bank east of Jerusalem. It is noted for the caves in which the Dead Sea Scrolls were found.
Qumran [ˈkʊmrɑːn]
n
(Placename) See Khirbet Qumran
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De Vaux knew that the texts of the biblical scrolls were extremely close to the known Hebrew Bible; but he wondered who wrote them, and how they got to the caves of Wadi Qumran.
Mystery writers; a long-accepted theory about who wrote the Dead Sea ... by Rahimi, Dan / ROM Magazine
of America, DC) explains the various sigla that are used for texts and fragments found in the Wadi Qumran, elsewhere along the north coast of the Dead Sea, and the Genizah in Old Cairo.
A guide to the Dead Sea scrolls and related literature, rev. ed by Reference & Research Book News
But Josef Milik would become a prodigious publisher of those fragments of writing about the history of Judaism and the roots of Christianity, which had been found in jars in 11 caves on a plateau overlooking the ruins at the mouth of wadi Qumran.
COMMENT & ANALYSIS: OBITURAY by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
 
 
 
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