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Dead Sea Scrolls in British English
a number of scrolls dating from about 100 b.c. to about a. d. 70 discovered at various times since 1947 in caves near the Dead Sea: they contain Jewish Scriptural writings and religious writings of an Essene community
plural noun: a collection of manuscripts in Hebrew and Aramaic discovered in caves near the Dead Sea between 1947 and 1956. They are widely held to have been written between about 100 bc and 68 ad and provide important biblical evidence
plural noun: a number of leather, papyrus, and copper scrolls dating from c100b.c. to a.d.135, containing partial texts of some of the books of the Old Testament and some non-Biblical scrolls, in Hebrew and Aramaic, and including apocryphal writings, commentaries, hym

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