Old Testament scrolls written by Jewish Essenes in a male-only sect near Qumran sometime around 200-68 B.C.; they were stored in clay jars and hidden in caves in the Judean desert near the Dead Sea where a young Bedouin found them in 1947 while looking for a lost goat; the scrolls found were 1000 years older than the earliest existing copies, including all the books of the Bible except Estar as well as Enochian literature
A number of scrolls discoverd at various times since 1947, in caves near the Dead Sea, dating between 100 B.C. and A.D. 70 and containing Jewish Scriptual writings and religious writings from an Essenelike community.
In 1947 an Arab shepherd boy discovered manuscripts (which pre-dated Christ. Many of these manuscripts were of the Old Testament, apocryphal material, and records of the Essene community.
Parchment and papyrus texts of parts of the Tanakh and other documents of an Essene community, active 150 B.C.E.-70 C.E., which was located on the coast of the Dead Sea. Also referred to as Qumran, the short name of the site (Khirbet Qumran).
Scrolls discovered in 1947 and in following years which are thought to be connected to the nearby settlement of Qumran.
(Old Testament) a collection of written scrolls (containing nearly all of the Old Testament) found in a cave near the Dead Sea in the late 1940s; "the Dead Sea Scrolls provide information about Judaism and the Bible around the time of Jesus"
A collection of writings that were written from approximately 175 B.C. to 68 A.D. The scrolls were placed in caves to protect them from being destroyed during the first Jewish-Roman War. Three Bedouin boys tending their sheep near Qumran, which is on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea, originally discovered the scrolls in 1947. Over the course of nine years archeologists discovered that the scrolls contained every book of the Old Testament except Esther, as well as apocryphal and codes of ethics for the community that lived there. Previously, the oldest complete set of the Old Testament was the "Leningrad Codex" written in approximately 1010 A.D. The Dead Sea Scrolls are widely recognized as the most important archaeological discovery ever made in Israel.
a number of leather, papyrus and copper scrolls collaborating on the books in the Old Testament of the Bible, found in 1948 in caves on the northwest coast of the Dead Sea, believed to have been written between 168 B.C. and A.D. 233.
The name given to mainly parchment and papyrus scrolls written in Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek, and discovered in 11 caves along the northwestern coast of the Dead Sea between 1947 and 1956, generally dating from 250 B.C. to A.D. 68 and assigned to an Essene community located at the archaeological site known as Khirbet Qumran (Soulen, Handbook of Biblical Criticism).
the oldest known manuscripts of any books of the Bible. They contain all the books of the Old Testament, except Esther. A few of these books are almost complete. They were found in the 1940s and 1950s in caves near the north-west shores of the Dead Sea. Now they are kept in the "Shrine of the Book", part of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
A collection of scrolls dating to the first century B.C.E. found in caves near the Dead Sea; they are generally thought to be linked with the settlement at Qumran, and with a Jewish religious group called the Essenes. See Conclusion.
A group of over 800 manuscripts found between 1947 and 1956 in various caves on the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea. The bulk of the manuscripts were discovered in eleven caves near a (probable) Essene settlement at Qumran, and include biblical, parabiblical, apocryphal and sectarian writings as well as some documentary texts (practice alphabets, deeds, contracts, letters).
Archeologists and biblical scholars have studied the Dead Sea scrolls and have found them to contain portions of nearly all of the Old Testament books. The NIV and other modern translations like NAS, NKJV, and NLT, incorporate the scholarship of these archeological findings, giving them a distinct advantage over older translations like the KJV.
The book which SEELE appears to be using as its guide. SEELE followed what was written, built the Evas and moved on to fighting the Angels. It seems it also contains writings concerning the Angels which would attack. It is also called "Secret Dead Sea Scrolls" in the SEELE organization. In reality, the "Dead Sea Scrolls" were excavated in 1947 from the Qumran Caves near the Dead Sea, a lake in Israel. It contained the Old Testament and the Apocrypha - religious writings not contained within the Bible. There were rumors that the Vatican was hiding some of its contents, but in 2001, the entire manuscript was finally published.
A collection of more than 800 manuscripts written on parchment, papyrus, and copper over 2,000 years ago. The Dead Sea Scrolls were found in 1947 in what is now Israel. The Scrolls contain many different kinds of texts, including the oldest known portions of the Old Testament of the Bible.
The Dead Sea scrolls comprise roughly 825-872 documents, including texts from the Hebrew Bible, discovered between 1947 and 1956 in eleven caves in and around the Wadi Qumran (near the ruins of the ancient settlement of Khirbet Qumran, on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea) in Israel. The texts are of great religious and historical significance, as they are practically the only known surviving Biblical documents written before AD 100.