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The Dead Sea Scrolls are among the most interesting and important archaeological discoveries ever made, and the excavation of the Qumran community itself has provided invaluable information about Judaism and the Jewish world in the last centuries B.C.E. Like the Dead Sea Scrolls, however, the Qumran site continues to be the object of intense scholarly debate. In a book meant to introduce general...
compared with the present form of the Hebrew Bible. The text of the Hebrew Bible used today is referred to as the Masoretic Text (from the Hebrew word masorah, which means “tradition”). However, in the pre-Christian centuries different versions of or variations on the text of the Hebrew Bible circulated (mostly with relatively minor differences). After the Masoretic Text became authoritative (ca. 100 C.E.), the other versions ceased to circulate and disappeared. The biblical scrolls from Qumran include
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