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
Dr. Cross was given responsibility for Cave No. 4, and he published his findings in “The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Biblical Studies” in 1958.
From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2012
Eisenman contends that the later Qumran scrolls were written by a messianic movement that blended into early Christianity.
From Time Magazine Archive
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