4Q107 — ( or 4QCantb) is a fragment of the Song of Songs in Hebrew found in Cave 4 at Qumran in Israel and which comprises part of the Dead Sea Scrolls. From the palaeography (script) on the fragment it has been identified as being early Herodian, i.e. c … Wikipedia
Dead Sea Scrolls — Coordinates: 31°44′27″N 35°27′31″E / 31.74083°N 35.45861°E / 31.74083; 35.45861 … Wikipedia
Essenes — Part of a series of articles on Jews and Judaism … Wikipedia
Dead Sea scrolls — The Dead Sea Scrolls consist of roughly 1,000 documents, including texts from the Hebrew Bible, discovered between 1947 and 1979 in eleven caves in and around the Wadi Qumran (near the ruins of the ancient settlement of Khirbet Qumran, on the… … Wikipedia
Muhammed edh-Dhib — Muhammad Ahmed al Hamed (born 1931), better known by his nickname Muhammed edh Dhib (Arabic: محمد الذئب; Muhammad the Wolf ), was a Bedouin shepherd from the Ta amireh clans residing in Bethlehem, who discovered the Dead Sea Scrolls in winter… … Wikipedia
Copper Scroll — The Copper Scroll (3Q15) is one of the Dead Sea Scrolls found in Cave 3 near Khirbet Qumran, but differs significantly from the others. Whereas the other scrolls are written on parchment or papyrus, this scroll is written on metal: copper mixed… … Wikipedia
Damascus Document — The Damascus Document (CD) (the Cairo Damascus document) or Damascus Rule is one of the most interesting texts of the Dead Sea Scrolls because it is the only Qumran sectarian work that was known before the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. There … Wikipedia
Norman Golb — (born in Chicago, Illinois in 1928) is the Ludwig Rosenberger Professor in Jewish History and Civilization at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. He earned his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1954. He joined the faculty of… … Wikipedia
Community Rule — The Community Rule (1QS), which was previously referred to as the Manual of Discipline and in Hebrew Serekh ha Yahad is one of the first scrolls to be discovered near khirbet Qumran, the scrolls found in the eleven caves between 1947 and 1954 are … Wikipedia
Mar Samuel — For the third century Talmudist, see Samuel of Nehardea. Metropolitan Athanasius Yeshue Samuel (1909 1995), more often referred to as Mar Samuel, was a Metropolitan and Archbishop of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch, as well as a central… … Wikipedia
