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Noun: Dead Sea scrolls
  1. (Old Testament) a collection of written scrolls (containing nearly all of the Old Testament) found in a cave near the Dead Sea in the late 1940s
    "the Dead Sea Scrolls provide information about Judaism and the Bible around the time of Jesus"

Type of: roll, scroll

Encyclopedia: Dead Sea scrolls

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