Scripture · c. 150 BCE

The Dead Sea Scrolls are written

Qumran, near the Dead Sea

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Jews of the late Second Temple period copied scripture and wrote rules and hymns, some probably at Qumran itself. The scrolls were hidden in caves around 68 CE and found by a Bedouin shepherd in 1947.

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