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Martin_S. Says: When standing in front of this sign which explains how and where the Dead Sea scrolls were found, you can see in the hills the actual cave were they were discovered. When we visited there, the path up to the caves was closed.The second photo shows one of the access paths, it...
Martin_S. Says: How do you live in the middle of a remote desert without a source of fresh water...well the answer is that you conserve and collect ever drop of water that falls out of the sky, yes the RAIN....Here at Qumran there are, like many desert outposts, a series of cisterns for...
Martin_S. Says: The Jewish religious culture revolved as most religious cultures do, around rituals. One of them is the ritual clenseing (or bathing) in the Mikveh. Here in this small remote community on the shores of the Dead Sea with NO source of water, the Essenes would use their water...
Martin_S. Says: The famous Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered here in Qumran by a Bedoun shepard in 1947 and from thre begins the adventure. Today many other scrolls haved been found and they included books of the Old Testament, the Apocrypha and works of the Essenes themselves. The Dead Sea...
WStat Says: Qumran is located on a dry plateau about a mile inland from the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea in the West Bank, just next to the Israeli Kibbutz of Kalia. Qumran is best known as the settlement nearest to the hiding place of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the caves of the...
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Cave 3 where the Copper Scroll was found
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FruitLover Says: The Essenes were ascetics, and as such, had paid great attention to ritual bathing and purity. They lived a communal life in a settlement that was constructed to make them as self-reliant as possible. They had assembly halls, a central dining room, in which ceremonial meals...
FruitLover Says: One of the caves where the scrolls were found.The caves that dot the difficult-to-reach slopes and crevices of Qumran had served the Essenes in time of need as hiding places for their library. The scrolls, hidden in jars for nearly two thousand years and preserved as a...
FruitLover Says: Suggested reconstruction of Qumran in the Second Temple period
oshatz Says: The Qumran site was discovered in 1946 by a bedouin boy, who went to find a lost goat, but instead found a cave in which clay pots were hidden. In these pots, a treasure of manuscripts was discovered. This discovery led to the discovery of over 700 additional manuscripts in...
maritagnes Says: Qumran is famous for the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. A young bedouin boy found the first Dead Sea scrolls in a cave in 1947. This discovery was followed by a excavation of a monastery-like site of the Essenes, where the scrolls originate from. Altogether more than 500...
WATER, get it before you arrive
Martin_S. Says: Water the liquid of life. Most important thing in the desert.But do NOT purchase here at Qumran, the people who run the tourist concession here are related to Ali Baba (yes the THIEF).Take a look at the sign, a 1.5 liter bottle of water costs between 26-37 Israeli...
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Suggested reconstruction of Qumran in the Second Temple period
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Qumran, still in Israel for now
Qumran along the northern shore of the Dead Sea is still at the time I write this in Israeli territority and safe to visit. The Essenes settled this area in the second century before Christ. Even...
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Qumran's fame comes from a break-away sect, known as the ESSENES, who lived and studied there for two centuries - from the end of Hashmonean period, through the great revolt of the Jews against the......
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The Script Rolls of the Dead Sea
The area around Qumran, the Dead Sea and Masada breathes the history of our culture: here the famous script-rolls have been found.The documents contain over 100 copies of the books of the Hebrew...
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Qumran Scrolls were found in Judean Desert, amazingly well preserved for 2,000 (!) years, thanks to extremely dry climate, from era of crucial developments in the crystallization of the monotheistic...
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The Essenes and the Dead Sea Scrolls
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