| Page Views: 574 Last Visit to Khirbat Qumran: March, 2008 | The Dead Sea Scrolls by FruitLover - last update: Mar 21, 2008 |
Treasures in the Judean Desert - Qumran Ruin Qumran's fame comes from a break-away sect, known as the ESSENES, who lived and studied there for two centuries - from the end of Hashmonean period, through the great revolt of the Jews against the Romans - and left in the surrounding caves a magnificent legacy, that we now call the Dead Sea Scroll.
Ancient Hebrew scrolls accidently discovered in 1947 by a Bedouin boy, caused a geat excitement because these Dead-Sea Scrolls reveal about the history of the Second Temple period( 520 BCE- 70 CE), until its destruction in 70 CE - a time of crucial developments in the crystallization of the MONOTHEISTIC RELIGIONS. |
|  | Location Located west of the Kaliah-Sedom road [road 90] on the north-western shore of the Dead Sea. |
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hekate Sat May 20, 2006 08:10 UTC
that is a place with a rough beauty... | orlikins Fri May 5, 2006 16:23 UTC
Very interesting! |
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