Qumran
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- proper noun
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Qumrán
- The biblical manuscripts from Qumran provide an eloquent witness to the variety of Hebrew textual traditions in Jesus' time.
- Qumran site
- Qumran Cave
- Qumran sect
So now the question is, were the scrolls created somewhere else and brought to Qumran intact?
- So now the question is, were the scrolls created somewhere else and brought to Qumran intact?
- And Josephus, Pliny, Philo all wrote about how people would come from far and wide to get healed by the Essenes in the Qumran Valley because they were known for this.
- And so there are you have a whole spectrum of people from the folks who went ran off into the desert at Qumran.
- And we know that Damascus was actually a a code word used by the Essenes for their basin Qumran.
Examples
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What did the eleven caves at Qumran yield?
Academic text (1994) -
The Dead Sea Scrolls were found in a cave near Qumran, providing insight into ancient Jewish practices.
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I will be going directly to Qumran to dig.
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I believe you, too, are going by car to Qumran?
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All right, let's go to Qumran.
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We have you down for six days in Jerusalem, Mr. Cope, and then Qumran for another four.
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Some regard Qumran as a meeting place or "retreat center" for a Jewish religious movement.
Academic text (1994) -
Who were the people behind the Qumran scrolls?
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She is to take charge of the excavations at Qumran.
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Many archaeologists have dedicated their careers to studying Qumran and the community that once inhabited it.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Qumran comes from the local Arabic name Khirbat Qumran, where Khirbat means 'ruin', so the word names the ruins and caves by the Dead Sea that people visit and study.