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Qumran

American  
[koom-rahn] / ˈkʊm rɑn /
Or Qûmran
Qumran British  
/ ˈkʊmrɑːn /

noun

  1. See Khirbet Qumran

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

The approximate dates of the four oldest Gospel papyri are as follows: the Qumran scroll fragment 7Q5 of St. Mark's Gospel was written sometime before A.D.

From Time Magazine Archive

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