conceal ancient written documents that will make the impact on the study of Palestinian Judaism and its biblical books that these eleven Qumran caves have made! These Qumran Scrolls have supplied texts that fall into three groups: (1) biblical texts (copies of every book of the OT, except Esther); (2) sectarian texts (rulebooks, liturgical, and poetic writings); and (3) parabiblical Jewish documents, often misnamed “intertestamental” (Enoch, Jubilees, etc.). This discovery of scrolls and fragments
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