Qumran caves

Qumran is an area on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea . In 1947 the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered by a young Bedouin shepherd in a cave of this region. The Dead Sea Scrolls are believed to have belonged to the monastic community of Essenes at Khirbet Qumran. These scrolls have helped scholars push back substantially the date of the earliest known Hebrew Old Testament manuscripts .

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Qumran caves