Qumran Caves Experience

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Qumran Caves - an archaeological site in the West Bank managed by Israel's Qumran National Park.  It is best known site where the Dead Sea Scrolls were hidden and found.  The Dead Sea Scrolls are ancient Jewish religious manuscripts found in the Qumran Caves in the Judaean Desert, near Ein Feshkha on the northern shore of the Dead Sea. Scholarly consensus dates these scrolls from the last three centuries BCE and the first century CE. The texts have great historical, religious, and linguistic significance because they include the second-oldest known surviving manuscripts of works later included in the Hebrew Bible canon, along with deuterocanonical and extra-biblical manuscripts which preserve evidence of the diversity of religious thought in late Second Temple Judaism. Almost all of the Dead Sea Scrolls collection is currently under the ownership of the Government of the State of Israel, and housed in the Shrine of the Book on the grounds of the Israel Museum.

Most were written on parchment and some on papyrus.

Many scholars believe the location was home to a Hebrew sect, probably the Essenes.

NOTES: Some pictures and information from the Net.

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