What is Dead Sea scrolls?
The '''Dead Sea Scrolls''' are about 1,000 documents. They include texts from the [[Hebrew Bible]]. They were found between 1947 and 1979 in eleven [[cave]]s in and around the Wadi [[Qumran]] (near the ruins of the ancient settlement of [[Qumran|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]]. [[File:Deadseascrolls.jpg|thumb|285px|Fragments of the scrolls on display at the Archaeological Museum, Amman]] [[File:Qumran.jpeg|thumb|250px|The caves in which the scrolls were found]] == Related pages == * [[Shrine of the Book]] {{Wikisource}} {{Commons|Category:Qumran}} {{Books of the Bible}} {{religion-stub}} [[Category:Religious texts]] [[Category:Jewish literature]] [[Category:Dead Sea Scrolls]] [[Category:1st-century BC biblical manuscripts]] [[Category:1st-century biblical manuscripts]]