Dead Sea scrolls facts for kids
The Dead Sea Scrolls is about 1,000 documents. They include texts from the Hebrew Bible. They were found between 1947 and 1979 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) in the West Bank. The religious and historical texts are very important as they include practically the only known surviving copies of Biblical documents made before 100 CE. They show evidence of many different beliefs and practices within late Second Temple Judaism.
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Caves at Qumran
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A view of the Dead Sea from a cave at Qumran in which some of the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered.
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The Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaa) contains almost the whole Book of Isaiah.
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The Damascus Document Scroll, 4Q271Df, found in Cave 4
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4Q7, a fragment of the book of Genesis found in Cave 4
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Dead Sea Scroll fragments 7Q4, 7Q5, and 7Q8 from Cave 7 in Qumran, written on papyrus.
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A view of part of the Temple Scroll that was found in Qumran Cave 11.
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Fragments 1 and 2 of '7Q6' from Cave 7 are written on papyrus.
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Two of the pottery jars that held some of the Dead Sea Scrolls found at Qumran.
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Two Dead Sea Scrolls jars at the Jordan Museum, Amman
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A previously unreadable fragment of the Dead Sea Scrolls photographed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory using digital infrared technology. Translated into English it reads: "He wrote the words of Noah."
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Eleazar Sukenik examining one of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1951.
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Visitors examining Dead Sea Scrolls displayed at the Shrine of the Book in Jerusalem.
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Strip of the Copper Scroll from Qumran Cave 3 written in the Hebrew Mishnaic dialect, on display at the Jordan Museum, Amman
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Advertisement in The Wall Street Journal dated 1 June 1954 for four of the "Dead Sea Scrolls"
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In Spanish: Manuscritos del Mar Muerto para niños
