Dead Sea Scrolls

1 Enoch

The First book of Enoch is one of the Old Testament pseudepigrapha, in other words, a composition attributed to a personage from the Hebrew Bible, but not included in either the Jewish or the Christian Bible. …

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4Q242 Prayer of Nabonidus

In October 539 BCE, the Persian king Cyrus took Babylon, the ancient capital of an oriental empire covering modern Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Israel. In a broader sense, Babylon was the ancient world's capital of scholarship and science. The subject…

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Qumran

Qumran: site where the Dead Sea scrolls were discovered.History The "tower": the oldest part of the ruin The Dead Sea Scrolls, a…

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