Guide of THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS

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The Bibliography may be searched for specific keywords.
If you know little about the Dead Sea Scrolls and would like to learn more, the Beginner's Guide to Scrolls offers general bibliography and a few links.
Our listing of the Discoveries in the Judaean Desert (DJD) series may help you find the volume you need.
By special arrangement with Brill Academic Publishers , we now offer an up-to-date list of their recent publications on the Scrolls.
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BBC NEWS | Europe | \'Irish Dead Sea Scrolls\' in bog
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Fragments of an ancient manuscript found in an Irish bog are being hailed as comparable to the Dead Sea Scrolls.
The discovery of the Psalter, or Book of Psalms, in the south Midlands is said to be one of the most significant discoveries in archaeology for decades.
National Museum of Ireland specialists believe the manuscript may have been lost in transit or dumped after a raid - possibly up to 1, 200 years ago.
The manuscript was found by a eagle-eyed digger-driver, who acted quickly to ensure its preservation.
Dr Wallace said it was not in pristine condition but some of the writing was still legible.
'When we saw it in the bog, we were able to read one of the psalms in Latin, ' he said.
He said it was 'not so much the fragments themselves, but what they represent, that is of such staggering importance'.
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'It testifies to the incredible richness of the Early Christian civilisation of this island and to the greatness of ancient Ireland.' It is believed the extensive fragments are of an Irish Early Christian Psalter, written on vellum.

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EXPLORING THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS
Kraft This web page will be under construction throughout the Spring Semester of 2000 .
NOTE this link to an example of the Index that is under construction.
1.0 MYSTERY The mystery of the Dead Sea Scrolls is many mysteries: Who were the people responsible for the burial of the scrolls? What was the purpose of the group of buildings at Khirbet Qumran ('Ruin of Qumran')? Is there any connection between the caves nearby and the Khirbeh ('Ruin')? It is over fifty years since the discovery of scrolls near Qumran in the Dead Sea region of Israel, and these mysteries remain.
2.1 BACKGROUND 2.1.1 Location The mysterious materials discovered in 1946 or 1947 near Khirbet Qumran had been found in a land attuned to the historical world called 'the Ancient Near East.' What to call the land is an academic problem; currently, in the year 2000, the area of Qumran is in the occupied West Bank, administered by Israel.
At the time of the discovery, it was in a larger geographical division called Palestine, consisting of trust territories administered by Great Britain.
At the time of the discovery, Great Britain proposed to give up the trust territories, and asked very new United Nations to determine what should become of the land.

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Qumran_Archaeometry_Jan_Gunneweg: From where is all that Qumran Pottery
* Dead Sea Scrolls and Pottery at Qumran * Store Jar, really designed to hold a Scroll ? The Dead Sea Provenience Project concerns the Qumran Pottery found in association with the site and the caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found.
The pottery was submitted to neutron activation analysis (NAA) to learn where the pottery was made.
The present Homepage concerns a collaborative project between: The Hebrew University (Jan Gunneweg Ph.D., Archaeometrist, Archaeologist) The Technical University of Budapest (Marta Balla Ph.D., Geologist, Archaeologist) The Ecole Biblique (Jean-Baptiste Humbert Ph.D., Archaeologist) After hundreds of publications concerning the restoration and the textual exegesis of the Qumran Dead Sea Scrolls, it seemed to us a logical step to study the Qumran storage jars, the cups, the dishes and other ceramic containers which have been unearthed at the Qumran Complex itself and in its surrounding caves in order to learn: * W H E R E * all these vessels were manufactured to establish the cultural interactions with peaple near to or remote from Qumran ? Of course, it will not be easy to receive an answer to the provenience of all the vessels--otherwise one has to analyze every piece of ceramic found.

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