Dead Sea Scroll Caves 2
by Lydia Holly
Title
Dead Sea Scroll Caves 2
Artist
Lydia Holly
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Photograph - Photography
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This photograph was taken from the archaeological site of Qumran (Israel) , the place where the Essenes, a Jewish sect during the Second Temple, lived as a community in the Judean Desert. It is also the area where the famous Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in 1948 by Bedouin Shepherds. This first cave contained the famous Great Isaiah Scroll. According to Wikipedia, " The scroll is written in Hebrew and contains the entire Book of Isaiah from beginning to end, apart from a few small damaged portions. It is the oldest complete copy of the Book of Isaiah known, being 1100 years older than the Leningrad Codex, and the most complete scroll out of the 220 found at Qumran. Pieces of the Isaiah Scroll have been carbon-14 dated at least four times, giving calibrated date ranges between 335-324 BC and 202-107 BC; there have also been numerous paleographic and scribal dating studies placing the scroll around 150-100 BC." The Isaiah Scroll is now housed in Jerusalem at the Shrine of the Book at the Israel Museum.
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October 13th, 2016
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