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Dead Sea Scrolls
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2. Dead Sea Scrolls
Place : Qumran (near Dead Sea) Time : 1947 (discovered time) Content : parchment or papyrus scrolls in jars Language : Hebrew , Aramaic, Greek

4. Content of the Scrolls Biblical manuscript Pseudepigrapha
(apocryphal books)
3. Sectarian

5. Biblical manuscript Includes all the books in Hebrew Bible
Except for Esther
40% of the identified scrolls

6. Pseudepigrapha (apocryphal books)
Document from Second Temple Period
Contains Enoch, Jubilees, Tobit, Sirach, some non-canonical psalms, etc
30% of the identified scrolls

8. Sectarian Possible rules and beliefs of a particular group
Community of Essenes
30% of the identified scrolls

9. Essenes A Jewish religious group Possible inhabitant in Qumran
Stoicism
Forbids sacrificing animals
Live in poverty

11. Christianity and Essenes
The children of light vs. the children of darkness
Teacher of Righteousness
Chosen by God
Messiah

12. Essenes Jesus Son of light Every man Reject sinners Accept sinners
Follow the community
Follow Jesus/ Follow God
Hatred to women
Accept women

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