The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Second Edition) (Biblia.com)

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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...

The result of the Temple Scroll’s harmonization of the legislation in Leviticus and Deuteronomy is that (1) all clean and unblemished animals within a three days’ journey from Jerusalem must be sacrificed in the temple; (2) it is forbidden to eat any nonsacrificial meat in Jerusalem; (3) clean but blemished animals may be slaughtered and consumed only outside a distance of four miles from Jerusalem Notice that Jerusalem is not mentioned in any of this legislation. The passage in Leviticus relates

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