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Re:Dead Sea scrolls study raises new questions over texts' o... by wl on Monday September 09, 2019 @09:29AM (#20917931)
Specifically, one of the more likely theories is that a good number of these scrolls were deposited in the desert by various religious communities for safe keeping before the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE.
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Re:Dead Sea scrolls study raises new questions over texts' o... by ilimilku on Monday September 09, 2019 @09:36AM (#20917993)
Yes, there was one article published a number of years ago (the author's name escapes me), who did a good job of parsing out the various communities that could have been responsible for certain caves, priests, Zealots, etc. I'm not sure it got much traction, but I found the exercise intriguing.
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