Dead Sea Scroll Caves
by Lydia Holly
Title
Dead Sea Scroll Caves
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."
It was not until 1952 that the cave toward the bottom of the photograph, Cave 4, was explored and in it the majority of scrolls were discovered. It is the most famous of caves because of its visibility and the fact that it produced some 90 per cent of the discovered scrolls up to this point in time. However, the search is cranking up again in hope of finding more scrolls!
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October 3rd, 2016
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