manuscripts in scrolls stored in these jars. Among the cache of scrolls that we now call the Dead Sea Scrolls, are three distinct types of material. First, we have a collection of copies of the ...

In the rocky cliffs of Wadi Qumran, near the northwest shore of the Dead Sea, archaeologists from ... removing the scrolls. Jars that once held scrolls were broken open, their contents removed.

The issue: interpretation of the so-called "non-Biblical writings" found with Old Testament scripts among the Dead ... jars and a pile of debris. When leaving they took several foul-smelling ...