10 Minute Topics: Dead Sea Scrolls

The next in a weekly series of 10 minute topics teaching about various topics within Judaism. This week's topic is: The Dead Sea Scrolls.

The Dead Sea scrolls consist of roughly 900 documents, including texts from the Hebrew Bible, discovered between 1947 and 1956 in eleven caves in and around the Wadi Qumran near the ruins of the ancient settlement of Khirbet Qumran, on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea.

The texts are of great religious and historical significance, as they include some of the only known surviving copies of Biblical documents made before 100 CE, and preserve evidence of considerable diversity of belief and practice within late Second Temple Judaism.

Sources:
Dead Sea Scrolls (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea_scrolls)

Qumran Caves (http://www.bibleplaces.com/qumrancaves.htm)

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[becomingjewishorg]

Yes. I don't use that term but I was reading from what someone else wrote.

[ArtLoversStudio18]

"Old Testament" (5:02).... do you mean "The Hebrew Bible?"