Tag: Qumran
The mysterious Melchizedek of Qumran
The Rule of the Qumran’s Community
The manuscript’s acronym 1QS indicates the place where it was found: the first cave of Qumran; it also indicates the character of the text, a rule, in Hebrew serek. In fact, there is an analogy between the content of this manuscript and the rules of monastic orders and religious congregations; among other…
Josè O’Callaghan
The Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
The mysterious jar of Qumran
New Qumran Scrolls!

They lay inside the desert grottoes for centuries and remained hidden for another sixty years inside what were catalogued as tefillin, the phylacteries worn by observant Jews during prayer. This is the background to the sensational discovery of nine new Qumran scrolls. The Dead Sea area of the Qumran is…