Qumran
Americannoun
noun
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The university said the location is roughly 10.5 miles southeast of Jerusalem and 5 miles from Qumran and the Dead Sea.
From Washington Times • Sep. 27, 2023
By 1956, archaeologists and Bedouin explorers reported finding 11 such caverns, all to the northwest of the Dead Sea near the region of Qumran.
From Washington Post • Feb. 9, 2017
The scene: Stone-like structures stood beside the cocktail area, evoking the caves of Qumran, where a shepherd first stumbled upon the 2,000-year-old manuscripts in 1947.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2015
More scrolls were eventually found in other caves near the site of an ancient settlement called Qumran, and many people believed that they would reveal new insights into the Bible.
From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2012
Compared with the orthodox rabbinical thinking that was later codified in the second century Mishnah, the Qumran rules on ritual cleanliness were superstrict.
From Time Magazine Archive
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