Dead Sea Scrolls and QumranQumran is the location in which the Dead Sea Scrolls were found. What are the Scrolls and what do they contain?Those Scrolls – about 900 of them - are some of the only known surviving copies of Biblical documents. The scrolls are dated to between 150 BC-70AD. 
Here is an image of a piece of scroll. The scrolls include at least parts of every book of the Old Testament, and usually the writings are almost identical to the traditional Hebrew scripts of the bible. However, some of the scrolls contain changes from the traditional script. The scrolls were found in 11 caves in the northwestern shoreline of the Dead Sea closest to Qumran. 
One of the caves at Qumran Qumran is believed to have been a settlement of a Jewish mystical sect called Essenes. The scrolls, which were discovered in 1947 by an Arab shepherd, are believed to have been the Essenes library. Today, you will be able the find the majority of the Scrolls in the shrine of the book in the Israel museum in Jerusalem. click here to go back to the Dead Sea page The Dead Sea Scrolls were interesting... click here for the Home Page
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