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A Choice Outstanding Academic Title and winner of the Biblical Archaeology Society’s Publication Award for Best Popular Book on Archaeology. The Dead Sea Scrolls have been described as the most important archaeological discovery of the twentieth century. Deposited in caves surrounding Qumran by members of a Jewish sect who lived at the site in the first century BCE and first century CE, they...

of Judean society in the first century BCE and first century CE. They were scrupulous in their observance of Jewish law and supplemented the Written Law (Pentateuch) with Oral Law. Oral Law represents the interpretations of the Written Law that were passed down orally from successive generations of teachers to their disciples. In contrast, the Sadducees seem to have rejected the authority of much of the Oral Law on the grounds that it was of human origin rather than divinely ordained. Unlike the
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