Category: Dead Sea Scrolls
Five Reasons to Get Excited about the Dead Sea Scrolls
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1) They’re old. So what? Yeah, well, I understand. Grandpa’s old, but the only one who’s excited about him is grandma, and even there, the magic wore off twenty years ago. But the key is not the age of the Dead Sea...
Five More Reasons to Get Excited about the Dead Sea Scrolls
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1) Modern discoveries shed light on their importance. The oldest and most authoritative New Testament manuscripts found to date, the Sinaiticus and Vaticanus codices (what’s a codex, plural: codices? A scriptural ...
Fun Facts about the Dead Sea and the Dead Sea Scrolls
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Not all history is as dry as desert dust. Some is sprinkled with murder, mystery and intrigue. Now, I’m not saying the story of the Dead Sea Scrolls reads like a James Bond novel, but if written correctly, it’s not fa...
The Dead Sea Scrolls, in Ten Easy Steps
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1) Khirbet Qumran, meaning ‘ruin of’ Qumran, sits on a plateau at the top of an irregular border of limestone cliffs beside the Dead Sea. Many of these cliffs contain caves which, given their location, are accessib...