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Dead Sea Scrolls — Manual of Discipline

The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in caves near Qumran in 1947, the most significant archaeological find of the 20th century: approximately 900 manuscripts from a Jewish sect that lived in the desert from roughly 150 BC to 68 AD, when the Romans destroyed their community during the Jewish War. The scrolls include the oldest surviving manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible and a set of previously unkno