Dead Sea Scrolls -- King Jon - The Public's Library and Digital …
WebDead Sea Scrolls -- King Jon. Prayer For King Jonathan. Tefillah li-Shlomo shel Yonatan ha-Melekh. 4Q448 Parchment Copied between 103-76 B.C.E. Height 17.8 cm (7 in.), length 9.5 cm (3 3/4 in.) Courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority (2) The King Jonathan mentioned in this text can be none other than Alexander Jannaeus, a monarch of the ...
Dead Sea Scrolls - Qumran Library - The Public's Library and …
WebThe Qumran Library The scrolls and scroll fragments recovered in the Qumran environs represent a voluminous body of Jewish documents, a veritable "library", dating from the third century B.C.E. to 68 C.E. Unquestionably, the "library," which is the greatest manuscript find of the twentieth century, demonstrates the rich literary activity of Second …
Dead Sea -- Intro - The Public's Library and Digital Archive
WebDead Sea -- Intro. Welcome to. SCROLLS FROM THE DEAD SEA. The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Scholarship. an Exhibit at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC. The exhibition Scrolls From the Dead Sea: The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Scholarship brings before the American people a selection from the scrolls which have …
Dead Sea -- Materials Relating to World of the Scrolls
WebDr. Golb states that the scrolls are from Jerusalem libraries, encompassing a wide variety of non-sectarian as well as sectarian materials. In his view, the preponderance of archaeological evidence supports the existence of a Roman fortress at Qumran rather than a sectarian community. Norman Golb The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Perspective The ...
The World of the Scrolls - The Public's Library and Digital Archive
WebDead Sea -- Introduction. The World of the Scrolls. In 1947, young Bedouin shepherds, searching for a stray goat in the Judean Desert, entered a long-untouched cave and found jars filled with ancient scrolls. That initial discovery by the Bedouins yielded seven scrolls and began a search that lasted nearly a decade and eventually produced ...
Outline of Objects and Topics in Scrolls from the Dead Sea
WebOutline of Objects and Topics in Scrolls from the Dead Sea. Exhibit's Introduction. The World of the Scrolls. The Dead Sea. Map of the Dead Sea. Library of Congress Materials Relating to the World of the Scrolls. The Qumran Library. Scroll fragments from the Qumran Library. Psalms.
The Dead Sea Scrolls
WebThe Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library offers an exceptional encounter with antiquity. Using the world's most advanced imaging technology, the Digital Library preserves thousands of scroll fragments, including the oldest known copies of biblical texts, now accessible to the public for the first time.
Dead Sea Scrolls - Today - The Public's Library and Digital Archive
WebThe Dead Sea Scrolls, which date back to the events described in the New Testament, have added to our understanding of the Jewish background of Christianity. Scholars have pointed to similarities between beliefs and practices outlined in the Qumran literature and those of early Christians. These parallels include comparable rituals of baptism ...
Dead Sea Scrolls - Wikipedia
WebThe Dead Sea Scrolls, also called the Qumran Caves Scrolls, are a set of ancient Jewish manuscripts from the Second Temple period. They were discovered over a period of 10 years, between 1946 and 1956, at the Qumran Caves near Ein Feshkha in the West Bank, on the northern shore of the Dead Sea.
Dead Sea Scrolls - academics.smcvt.edu
WebDead Sea Scrolls. ORION CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS http://orion.mscc.huji.ac.il/ From Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Resources.
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