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1 Qumran caves Qumran caves Qumran caves Qumran Cave One 2 - - PDF document
1 Qumran caves Qumran caves Qumran caves Qumran Cave One 2 - - PDF document
The Dead Sea Scrolls at Sixty Gary A. Rendsburg Rutgers University Part 1: The Discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Story in Itself (May 4) Part 2: The Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls: The Story Continues (May 11) 1 Qumran caves Qumran
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Muhammad edh-Dhib and colleague Kando Eleazar L. Sukenik (1889-1953) Second Isaiah Scroll (1QIsab)
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War Scroll (1QM)
Hodayot Scroll (Thanksgiving Hymns) (1QH) Hodayot Scroll (Thanksgiving Hymns) (1QH)
Kando Mar Samuel The Syrian Metropolitan
First Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaa)
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Community Rule (Manual of Discipline) (1QS) Pesher Habakkuk (1QpHab)
Genesis Apocryphon (1QapGen) [midrashic text dealing with Noah and Abraham]
American Schools of Oriental Research (Jerusalem)
Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls?
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Four Sects mentioned by Josephus (c. 80 C.E.)
- Sadducees
- Pharisees
- Essenes
- Zealots
Essenes:
- Communal life style
- Initiation rites
- Predetermination
- Some were celibate (see also Philo)
- Strict interpretation of Jewish law
Community Rule (Manual of Discipline) (1QS)
Pliny the Elder (23-79 C.E.), Natural History (77 C.E.) Locates the Essenes living “above Ein Gedi” “with no women among them, renouncing desire entirely, without money, with (only) palm trees for company”
Community Rule (Manual of Discipline) (1QS) Not a single mention of women in the 11-column text
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Mar Samuel The Syrian Metropolitan
Yigael Yadin (1917-1984)
First Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaa) Community Rule (Manual of Discipline) (1QS) Pesher Habakkuk (1QpHab)
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Genesis Apocryphon (1QapGen) [midrashic text dealing with Noah and Abraham] Yigael Yadin (1917- 1984) with James Biberkraut
(Chemistry professor)
Shrine of the Book –רפסה לכיה Israel Museum –לארשי ןואזומ Opened 1965 Qumran caves Qumran caves Qumran caves
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Père Roland de Vaux, O.P. (1903-1971)
École biblique et archéologique française
Khirbet Qumran
The Dining Hall The Pantry
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The Scriptorium
Writing Tables displayed at the Rockefeller Museum Water Channel Large Cistern
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Miqveh
Ein Fashha Qumran cemetery
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Entrance to Qumran Cave 4 Qumran Cave 4
581 texts from Qumran Cave 4 alone
4Q364 4Q365 Reworked Pentateuch 4Q303 – 4Q307 Miscellaneous Texts
Palestine Archaeological Museum – Rockefeller Museum
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Scrollery at the Rockefeller Museum (PAM) Every biblical book (except Esther) is represented Best attested ones are: Psalms – 39 Numbers – 12 Deuteronomy – 31 The Twelve – 10 Isaiah – 22 Daniel – 8 Genesis – 18 Ezekiel – 7 Exodus – 18 Jeremiah – 6 Leviticus – 17
Ben Ezra Synagogue, Cairo
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The Opening to the Cairo Geniza Damascus Document
(one of two copies from the Cairo Geniza)
Solomon Schechter (1847-1915) studying Geniza fragments (c. 1896) Solomon Schechter (1847-1915) – Documents of Jewish sectaries, edited from Hebrew MSS. in the Cairo Genizah collection, now in the possession of the University Library, Cambridge, vol. 1: Fragments of a Zadokite work. Louis Ginzberg (1873-1953) – Eine unbekannte jüdische Sekte (1922) (English translation: An Unknown Jewish Sect [1970]). Louis Ginzberg (1873-1953) 4Q266 Damascus Document
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