Word: qumran
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After taking a dirt road across the desert toward Qumran, where the first Dead Sea Scrolls were found, the Pikes missed a turn and wound up instead driving down a gray sandstone wadi (dry creek bed). When large rocks kept them from going farther, they tried in vain to turn the car around. Then, ignoring an old desert rule, they abandoned their vehicle to search for help. Two hours later, James Pike could walk no farther. "If we are going to die in the desert," Diane recalled telling him, "I will stay by you." The two napped; then Mrs. Pike...
...finds at Qumran, most of which date from the first century B.C., are early versions of the Old Testament. The complete Old Testament--except the Book of Esther, which was not written at the time, is found among the Dead Sea scrolls, said Cross...
...yellowed letter written by Bar Koohba, the self-acclaimed messiah of the pre-Christian ews. They had sent Cross a picture of it when they asked him to come, and he knew it was authentic. They had promised him scrolls--supposedly 20 of them--found in Jordan and the Qumran caves on the west bank of the Dead Sea. He was hoping that one of the 20 would be the Temple Scroll, a Dead Sea scroll from the first century B.C. that was reputedly 28 feet long with the center section sompletely intact...
...transaction was interrupted by the Arab-Israeli war. Israel seized Qumran as well as the section of Jordan in which Kondo lived and arrested him. Upon his release, he presented the victors with the Temple scroll...
Cross was a member of the international team of Biblical scholars who worked on Cave 4, the most prolific Qumran cave explored so far by professionals...