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| | Qumran - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Qumran (Khirbet Qumran) is located on a dry plateau on the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea in Israel. | | | A letter found in the 1990s expresses their reasons for creating the community, some of which mirror Sadducean arguments in the Talmud. | | | Many of them were selected for the library there, when Qumran became the asylum for supporters of the traditional priestly family of the Zadokites against the Hasmonean priest/kings. |
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| | Qumran Calendar |
| | Thus, the current state of understanding is that the Qumran calendar has a year of 364 days comprising 12 months of 30 or 31 days each and has holy days occurring every year on known fixed days. | | | Thus, at Qumran, the first day of the month was apparently the first day that the moon was not visible. | | | The conclusions of this article are first, that all of the usually understood features of the Qumran calendar are correct in that it had a 364-day year beginning on a Wednesday, with holy days occurring on fixed days every year. |
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http://www.johnpratt.com/items/docs/lds/meridian/2003/qumran.html
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| | The Enigma of Qumran By Yaron Ben-Ami |
| | Most scholars agreed early on that at least most of the scrolls were written in Qumran and that Qumran itself was a religious community inhabited by the sect which wrote and collected the manuscripts. | | | Broshi, a long time supporter of the Essene theory, also notes that many of the inhabitants of Qumran would have lived in the caves where the scrolls were found, much as Byzantine-era monks lived in similar caves in other parts of the Judean desert. | | | Broshi famously called Qumran "The first monastery in the Western World." But Dr. Magen says these caves were frequented by wild beasts, such as leopards and hyenas, rendering them unattractive to Qumran’s inhabitants. |
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http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Ben-Ami--The_Enigma_of_Qumran.htm
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| | Qumran |
| | Before the discovery of the Dead Sea scrolls, three variants of the Hebrew Bible texts were known: the "proto-masoretic" type (one that was a base for a later canonized text), the type apparently underlying the Septuagint, and the one close to Samaritan Bible. | | | The Qumran manuscripts were mostly written on parchment, some on papyrus. | | | There is a vast evidence that the manuscripts discovered in the Qumran caves belonged to the library of the occupants of the site in this period - a small hermit community referred as the Dead Sea Sect. |
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http://mosaic.lk.net/g-qumran.html
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| | A number of hymns or psalms that were found and are included in this category are: The Hymn of the Initiates, The Book of Hymns (The Thanksgiving Hymns), Psalm 151, Poems from a Qumran Hymnal, Lament for Zion, and Hymns of Triumph. | | | Scholars have suggested that they were a small group of Jews who were disgusted with the corruption and lawlessness of the priests and leaders responsible for worship at the Temple in Jerusalem. | | | Some of the writings of this community remind the reader of the themes of "repentance" and the "coming of the new age" that were preached by John the Baptist and Jesus. |
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http://www.fortunecity.com/millenium/rintintin/237/qumran.html
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| | THE QUMRAN COMMUNITY AND THE ESSENE SECT |
| | As we look at the community a Qumran, presumed to be part of the sect of Essenes, we need to evaluate their lifestyle, religious practices, and theology. | | | Regardless of whether or not the Essenes or Qumran community (if they were not Essenes) wrote and/or copied the texts known as the Dead Sea Scrolls, it appears that this community is responsible for hiding the multiple volumes to protect them from being captured or destroyed (possibly by the Romans). | | | Shaye Cohen indicates that many Jews of the second temple period, including the Qumran sect, were fatalistic, believing that their actions were predetermined (at least in part) by God. |
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http://www.lighttrek.com/Qumran.htm
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| | Qumran (BiblePlaces.com) |
| | Qumran Science (Hebrew University) Numerous scientific reports by Dr. Jan Gunneweg to determine date and identity of the inhabitants of the site and the caves. | | | Qumran (Walking in Their Sandals) Gives easy-to-read information on the location, biblical significance, etc. Features links to photographs and on-line scripture references. | | | Qumran (The Israeli Mosaic) Contains informative sections on the ruins of Qumran, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Dead Sea sect, and getting there. |
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http://www.bibleplaces.com/qumran.htm
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| | Qumran Controversy |
| | Interpretation of an ostracon found at Qumran (see "New Texts from Qumran," ARCHAEOLOGY, May/June 1996) that may refer to a community there was at the center of the dispute. | | | The presumption that the authors of the 2,000 year-old Dead Sea Scrolls were a small Jewish religious order known as the Essenes living in Qumran, Israel, was hotly debated at a conference on the scrolls held at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem this past July. | | | She believes the word was la-yahad, or "to the commune." Her interpretation was attacked by Norman Golb of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, who argues that the shape of the upper half of the letters does not allow such a translation. |
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http://www.archaeology.org/online/news/qumran.html
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| | QUMRAN finalqum |
| | And the sound of the wind of blessing is mingled with the tumult of their marching, and they praise Holiness while they return on their steps. | | | Ezekiel is the prophet to whom Qumran owes the most. | | | KEY: 4Q385 = Text manuscript number 385 in 4th cave found at Qumran. |
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http://www.webspawner.com/users/qumran
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| | TFBA - A Day in the Life |
| | Overseer The person occupying this position was in charge of all organizational and social aspects of the community, including the acceptance of new members and their instruction. | | | Many scholars believe that John was, for a short time, a member of the Essene community at Qumran. | | | Who shared the cave with him It seems that most of the inhabitants of Qumran (originally called Secacah, see below) lived in caves. |
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http://www.tfba.org/articles.php?articleid=1
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| | Dead Sea Scrolls & Qumran - Index |
| | The materials from the Qumran caves are, rather, merely a part of an expanding documentary reservoir from the region in and near greater Palestine from a range of historic periods, as well, apparently, as from an assortment of literary traditions. | | | Some have proposed that these caves were used, perhaps for a couple of centuries, as a genizah, a storage place for documents too sacred or important to be destroyed. | | | Nevertheless, it is by looking for answers to these that we can hope to gain some insight into the minds of the composers of these and other scrolls. |
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http://home.flash.net/~hoselton/deadsea/deadsea.htm
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| | Qumran and the New Testament |
| | As a result of their use of this verse, both John and the Qumran community referred to themselves as being "in the wilderness" and both the Qumran community and the early believers in Y'shua called their movement "the way". | | | Another strong parallel between John and the Qumran community is that of the importance given to the practice of water immersion/baptism (Heb: T'vilah). | | | Both the Qumran community, and John quoted Is. 40:3 as being a prophecy fortelling of their work (Mt. 3:3; Mk. |
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http://www.nazarene.net/Essenes.htm
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| | THE QUMRAN LIBRARY: SCROLLS: Scrolls from the Dead Sea (Library of Congress Exhibition) |
| | This hymn, which was not included in the biblical Book of Psalms, is familiar, however, from the tenth-century Syriac Psalter. | | | However, scholars are exploring the possibility that Jonathan-Jannaeus, unlike the other Hasmonean rulers, was favored by the Dead Sea community, at least during certain periods, and may explain the prayer's inclusion in the Dead Sea materials. | | | The King Jonathan mentioned in this text can be none other than Alexander Jannaeus, a monarch of the Hasmonean dynasty who ruled Judea from 103 to 76 B.C.E. The discovery of a prayer for the welfare of a Hasmonean king among the Qumran texts is unexpected because the community may have vehemently opposed the Hasmoneans. |
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http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/scrolls/scr3.html
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| | Qumran |
| | Likewise, in several passages from the Qumran sectarian writings, it is affirmed that the eternal destiny of each Jew (or perhaps all human beings) is determined by God. | | | First, in the surviving sectarian literature from Qumran, never is the accusation made that the Wicked Priest usurped the office of High Priest from the Teacher of Righteousness, contrary to what Stegemann claims; yet, if his view is correct, one would expect that this would be the major thrust of the criticism against Jonathan. | | | It is also difficult to believe that the splinter group, the Qumran community, would retain the texts produced by the Essenes, such being the nature of internecine religious struggles. |
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http://www.abu.nb.ca/Courses/NTIntro/InTest/Qumran.htm
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| | Redating the Dead Sea Scroll Deposits at Qumran.... by Greg Doudna |
| | In fact, there is no evidence that any of the scribal hands of the texts found in the caves of Qumran is later than the end of Qumran’s Period Ib. | | | They were given their dates by Cross in relationship to each other in a manner that seemed plausible, in terms of the assumption that the Qumran texts ran continuously to the time of the First Revolt. | | | Second, it is recognized that all of the biblical texts at Masada are of the Masoretic text type. |
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http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Doudna_Scroll_Deposits_3.htm
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| | Lehrhaus Judaica - The Adult School For Jewish Studies |
| | Although a brief Roman occupation is followed 65 years later by the use of Qumran as a Bar Kokhba Rebellion site, the real life of the community and its work of composing and copying Jewish religious texts ended with Phase II. | | | Qumran is rich in mystery for many reasons. | | | Most leading Dead Sea Scrolls scholars, such as Magen Broshi, James Charlesworth and Devora Dimant, all agree that the Essenes were the Jewish sect that inhabited Qumran, and that the theology reflected in the sectarian Dead Sea Scroll texts matches what we know about Essene beliefs. |
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http://www.lehrhaus.org/catalog/scrolls/scrolls3.html
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| | The Essenes and the Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran |
| | The scrolls at Qumran, however, because they were written before any of these events occurred, give us an unbiased picture of the original state of Jewish scripture at the time of Jesus Christ. | | | But for most Christians, the scrolls at Qumran are living proof that the scriptures we have today stem from documents that have changed little, if at all, over two thousand years of copying and recopying by numberless unknown scribes. | | | It is for these reasons -- and especially because the Qumran scrolls are the oldest known copies of Jewish scripture in existance -- that Qumran and the sect that produced these scrolls are so vital to the study of Judaism and Christianity. |
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http://members.aol.com/Wisdomway/deadseascrolls.htm
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| | Messiah (14): Qumran |
| | Its first part is a kind of theological history which proves that the sect is the true Israel and that God will reward the faithful; then follows a kind of law; and a brief penal code is added as an appendix. | | | After all, kings, priests and prophets were the only one that could be anointed (above). | | | But it means that there is not one, single messianology to be found in the texts from Qumran. |
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http://www.livius.org/men-mh/messiah/messiah_14.html
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| | Qumran: Description: Bible Picture Tour of Israel and the Middle East |
| | Qumran, Dead Sea Scrolls, Bible Picture Tour of Israel, Virtual Tour of the Holy Land: Qumran, Dead Sea Scrolls. | | | This is where a religious group known as the Essenes lived. | | | Qumran: Description: Bible Picture Tour of Israel and the Middle East |
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| | 02-031 (Qumran Conference) |
| | Qumran also included a cemetery, but there is no agreement on how many people were buried there or whether the dead included both males and females – a detail that could support or contradict DeVaux’s conclusions on the Essenes. | | | Subsequent Qumran scholars have argued the building complex was inadequate for a religious community; some believe Qumran was the site of a manor house, military fort or commercial storage and distribution center. | | | These installations are usually interpreted as ritual pools (miqva’ot) associated with the preoccupation of the Dead Sea Scroll sect with issues of ritual purity. |
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http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2002-03/02-031.html
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| | Qumran,Gunneweg,archaeometry |
| | An archaeometry congress on the Qumran project is scheduled for May 2005 under the umbrella of Cost G-8, the Hebrew University and the Shrine of the Book in Jerusalem. | | | A third consists of the various laws laid down for a religious Jeweish sect, whereas a third contains esoteric manuscripts of any kind, being it curses, magical and astrological. | | | Welcome to Qumran and the Dead Sea scrolls........ |
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http://micro5.mscc.huji.ac.il/%7Emsjan/qumranscience.html
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| | Greek Qumran Fragment 7Q5: Possibilities and Impossibilities |
| | Qumran Fragment 7Q5 and its Significance for New Testament Studies (as in n.8). | | | J. O'Callaghan, Los papiros griegos de la cueva 7 de Qumran (as in n.13) and in C.P. The Earliest Gospel Manuscript? | | | At Eichstätt, it had become apparent that there are more arguments in favour of the identification of 7Q5 as Mark 6,52-53 -- a New Testament identification first suggested as long ago as 1972 by the Spanish papyrologist José O'Callaghan ( |
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http://members.aol.com/egweimi/7q5.htm
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| | Article2 |
| | In essence this article or note pertains to all of the Greek papyrus fragments from Qumran cave 7 that can be shown to be part of the "Epistle of Enoch;" which is a significant literary portion of the book of First Enoch. | | | Furthermore, the attempts to identify fragments 7Q4,1and2 and 7Q8 as part of the New Testament are simply not convincing and can also be dismissed on paleographical grounds. | | | Puech mentions that these identifications in themselves are not surprising because Aramaic fragments of I Enoch have also been found in cave 4. |
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| | Archeology: Questions in Qumran - Newsweek Periscope - MSNBC.com |
| | That may mean the scrolls weren't written in Qumran at all—which makes the barren plateau suddenly look a lot less holy. | | | Archeologists have always assumed they lived at Qumran, a site revered by Jews and Christians alike. | | | Norman Golb, a University of Chicago professor who first argued in 1994 that the scrolls could have been written elsewhere, says Jews from Jerusalem, 20 miles away, probably hid them at Qumran so Roman legions wouldn't find them. |
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http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5842298/site/newsweek
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| | Qumran |
| | Since that time, over 700 manuscripts have been found in eleven caves surrounding Khirbet Qumran (Caves I–XI), the site of an abandoned community located on the northwestern corner of the Dead Sea. | | | Then one takes the books and reads aloud and another of especial proficiency comes forward and expounds what is not understood (Prob. | | | Other Sites Devoted to Qumran or the Dead Sea Scrolls: |
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| | The Schøyen Collection checklist--1.1. The Hebrew and Aramaic Bible |
| | Being extremely conservative, they preserved both a very archaizing form of the Hebrew script, and the original text of the Hebrew Pentateuch, confirmed by its agreements with the Qumran texts, and some Jewish texts that escaped revision by official Judaism. | | | Further Dead Sea Scroll fragments in The Schøyen Collection, see MSS 1909, 1926/1-4 and 2861, 4611, MS 4612 and 5095/1. | | | 150-155; and in: J.C. Trever: Completion of the Publication of some Fragments from Qumran Cave I, in: Revue de Qumran, tome 5, no. 19, Nov. 1965. |
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| | The Dead Sea Scrolls |
| | Attention will also be given to the archaeological context of the Qumran discoveries, as well as to the revolutionary importance of the scrolls for our understanding of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. | | | The class will read and discussed the major sectarian texts from Qumran with a view toward understanding their place in Second Temple Judaism. | | | This module is a survey of the Dead Sea Scrolls and related manuscript finds from the Judean Desert. |
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http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_sd/qumran.html
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| | Inventory of Manuscripts from Qumran |
| | Almost all the works in the Qumran library are religious in some sense. | | | This file should eventually contain a list of all the known manuscripts from the eleven original caves excavated at Qumran and about which information is presently available. | | | These manuscripts along with copies from Qumran Cave 4 are all listed together at the beginning of the Cave 4 list. |
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http://home.flash.net/~hoselton/deadsea/caves.htm
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| | Qumran - Walking in Their Sandals - location profile |
| | Fragments were found of all the Old Testament books except the book of Esther. | | | Qumran - Walking in Their Sandals - location profile | | | Qumran is located on a small plateau by the Wadi Qumran, with deep ravines to the west and north and the narrow coastal plain of the Dead Sea to the east. |
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http://www.ancientsandals.com/overviews/qumran.htm
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| | Qumran Isaiah Scroll Translation |
| | The Qumran texts that I have translated (1QaIsa) and (1QpHab) are dialects of Hebrew and not the Hebrew of the Tanach. | | | Thus the preservation of an identical letter for letter received text was not at all a part of their motivation in their use of the scriptures. | | | Preservation of the original Hebrew letter for letter text was the role played by the Rabbis of the "main stream" in Jerusalem and Babylon (Sura, Nahardea and Pumbidita) and they had a special class, an office called Scribes, who carefully copied manuscripts then kept the new and destroyed the old. |
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http://www.ao.net/~fmoeller/qa-tran.htm
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| | Dead Sea Scrolls: The Discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls |
| | We do not know precisely who wrote those sectarian scrolls, but we can say that the authors seemed to be connected to the priesthood, were led by priests, disapproved of the Jerusalem priesthood, encouraged a strict and pious way of life, and expected an imminent confrontation between the forces of good and evil. | | | From these texts we have increased our understanding of the transmission of the Bible, we have learned more about the development of early Judaism, and we have gained insight into the culture out of which emerged both Rabbinic Judaism and Christianity. | | | Most scholars believe that the Qumran community was very similar to the Essenes, one of four Jewish "philosophies" described by Josephus, a first century C.E. Jewish historian. |
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http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/wsrp/educational_site/dead_sea_scrolls/discovery.shtml
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| | Qumran Caves (BiblePlaces.com) |
| | From all 11 Qumran caves, every Old Testament book is represented except Esther. | | | No New Testament books or fragments have been found. | | | This eroded cave was discovered by the archaeologists (Bedouin found caves 1, 2, 4, 6, 11). |
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http://www.bibleplaces.com/qumrancaves.htm
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| | Enoch at Qumran - An overview of the Enochic texts found at Qumran |
| | Aramaic fragments of all sections of the Book of Enoch except the Similtudes and the concluding discourse (108) have been found at Qumran. | | | Navigation: Main > Religion > Dead Sea Scrolls > Enoch at Qumran | | | The earliest of the Enochic corpus found at Qumran is the Astronomical Book, which dates to the third century BCE and consists of insights and revelations Enoch passes on to his son Methuselah from the angel Uriel. |
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http://www.deliriumsrealm.com/delirium/religion/judaism_enoch.asp
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| | Dead Sea Scrolls - Qumran Library |
| | Continue exploring the Dead Sea Scrolls with The Qumran Community. | | | The number of different compositions represented is almost one thousand, and they are written in three different languages: Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. | | | There is less agreement on the specifics of what the Qumran library contains. |
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http://sunsite.unc.edu/expo/deadsea.scrolls.exhibit/Library/library.html
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| | Qumran |
| | These cast new light on the development of the Bible. | | | A kilometer south of the first cave was a modest ruin called in Arabic khirbet qumran, the ruin of Qumran). | | | The Qumran group is the same as a sect which |
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http://www.netours.com/2003/qumran.htm
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| | Great Isaiah Scroll Directory |
| | Qa, the Qumran Great Isaiah Scroll is complete from the first word on page 1 to the last word on page 54. | | | This is a directory of pages of the Great Isaiah Scroll of the Qumran community. | | | This scroll (which has been named by scholars as "Q") is dated at 100 BC. |
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| | THE QUMRAN COMMUNITY: Scrolls from the Dead Sea (Library of Congress Exhibition) |
| | Following de Vaux's interpretation and citing ancient historians as well as the nature of some scroll texts for substantiation, many scholars believe the Essene community wrote, copied, or collected the scrolls at Qumran and deposited them in the caves of the adjacent hills. | | | Qumran was abandoned about the time of the Roman incursion of 68 C.E., two years before the collapse of Jewish self-government in Judea and the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 C.E. World of the Scrolls - Dead Sea Region - Psalms Scroll - Artifacts | | | Located on a barren terrace between the limestone cliffs of the Judean desert and the maritime bed along the Dead Sea, the Qumran site was excavated by Pere Roland de Vaux, a French Dominican, as part of his effort to find the habitation of those who deposited the scrolls in the nearby caves. |
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| | ASOR CENTENNIAL PROGRAM |
| | AFTERNOON SESSIONS: From Qumran to Byzantium and Beyond | | | #4 Judaism and Christianity: Origins and Transformations - A view from Qumran |
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| | Orion Center: Education |
| | The most famous of these texts include the 10th century versions of Ben Sira and a sectarian text known as the Damascus Document, which was attested also at Qumran fifty years later. | | | Nevertheless, despite the wealth of information which was brought to light by the Cairo Genizah, the most famous 20th century find is the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. | | | Two Scottish sisters, Agnes Lewis and Margaret Gibson, first stumbled upon the Genizah and they referred their find to Solomon Schecter, Doctor of Talmudic and Rabbinic literature at the University of Cambridge. |
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| | Qumran Monastery |
| | Comparison of the various Gospel stories, using "Gospel Pesher", shows | | | Qumran Monastery, north is top, south is bottom.. | | | a relative few people participated....The natural entry-way to Qumran |
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http://www.jesusinkashmir.com/emedia/esstour4.htm
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| | Qumran Dead Sea Scrolls |
| | Many believe that this was occupied by the Essenes which are believed to be the people that made the Dead Sea Scrolls that were found in a nearby cave. | | | Many believe that this was occupied by the Essenes which are believed to be the people that made the Dead Sea Scrolls that were found in a nearby caves. | | | Qumran4entrance51-32tb.jpg A closeup of the entrance to the Qumran cave above.. |
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http://www.ebibleteacher.com/imagehtml/qumran.html
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| | IMJ |
| | The Essene sect, along with the Pharisees, Sadducees, Samaritans, Zealots, and early Christians, formed the Jewish society in the Land of Israel during the late Second Temple period (167 BCE - 70 CE). | | | Sources for the reconstruction of everyday life in ancient Qumran were the writings of the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus - who describes the daily routine of the Essenes from sunrise to sunset - as well as other classical sources (including Philo of Alexandria) and information from the scrolls themselves. | | | Our basic assumption, today accepted by most scholars, is that Khirbet Qumran and its environs were home to a Jewish group of Essenes. |
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http://www.imj.org.il/eng/archaeology/adayatqumran
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| | Qumran_Archaeometry_Jan_Gunneweg: From where is all that Qumran Pottery |
| | The Dead Sea Provenience Project concerns the Qumran Pottery found in association with the site and the caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found. | | | J-B Humbert of the Ecole Biblique of Jerusalem and Jan Gunneweg of the Hebrew University are the co-editors of a Publication of the Archaeology of Qumran. | | | Is there a difference between the pottery found in the Qumran complex and that from the caves? |
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http://pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il/~msjan/qumran.html
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| | Qumran on Encyclopedia.com |
| | It is famous for its caves, in some of which the Dead Sea Scrolls were found. | | | Bibliography: See C. Frisch, The Qumran Community (1956, repr. | | | At present, scholars do not agree on whether any link can be established between the ruins at Qumran and the scrolls found in the nearby caves. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/Q/Qumran.asp
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| | Amazon.com: The Dead Sea Scrolls Translated: The Qumran Texts in English: Books: Florentino Garcia Martinez,Wilfred G. ... |
| | Serious students of Qumran literature will need more than this work, of course, given that some of the renderings given in the book are disputed (debate over the particulars of any given text can be consulted in academic journals and monographs). | | | The translation of the manuscripts is organized into nine chapters, each with one or two pages of introduction. | | | The Dead Sea Scrolls Translated comprises an extensive preface outlining the origin of the manuscripts and the aims of the translation. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0802841937?v=glance
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| | Dead Sea Scrolls -- Timeline |
| | See also the Modern Timeline for Qumran, Israel and Jordan available at this site. | | | Qumran, Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Israel, Samaria and Judaea, and Rome. | | | New hominid species in the direct human lineage, australopithecus afarensis, appears and inhabits Ethiopia, walks on two legs and lives in social groups. |
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http://www.flash.net/~hoselton/deadsea/timeline.htm
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| | Dead Sea -- Intro |
| | The Library's exhibition describes the historical context of the scrolls and the Qumran community from whence they may have originated; it also relates the story of their discovery 2,000 years later. | | | Over the years questions have be en raised about the scrolls' authenticity, about the people who hid them away, about the period in which they lived, about the secrets the scrolls reveal, and about the intentions of the scrolls' custodians in restricting access. | | | The original exhibtion included nearly 100 objects: scroll fragments, artifacts from the Qumran site, and books and illustrations from the Library of Congress' collections. |
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http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/deadsea.scrolls.exhibit/intro.html
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| | On-Line Texts Related to Biblical Study: Dead Sea Scrolls |
| | A collection of pictures and short translation fragments related to the DSS and Qumran. | | | Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature is the site for DSS material and bibliography. |
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http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~humm/Resources/Texts/dss.html
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