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Qumran
Khirbet Qumran, West Bank
31.741, 35.459
Disputed. The caves and the manuscripts are certain. The Essene identification of the settlement is a majority view, not a closed case.
A settlement by the Dead Sea. Nearby caves held the scrolls found from 1946/47 onward. Many scholars link the site to a Jewish group related to the Essenes; others separate the library from the people who lived in the buildings.
Sources
No separate modern citation is attached to this place. The confidence note above is the atlas summary of the evidence.
Cited notes
-100. Dead Sea Scrolls site; Jewish sectarian context for Jesus's era. Not a Christian site
Pleiades; context only · Unverified in the source note
Manuscripts tied to this place
- 1 Enoch, Aramaic (4QEnᵃ, 4Q201)
- Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaᵃ)
- Jubilees, Hebrew (4QJubᵃ, 4Q216)
- Community Rule (1QS)
- Rule of the Congregation (1QSa)
- Messianic Apocalypse (4Q521)
- Damascus Document (4QDᵃ, 4Q266) + Cairo Genizah copies
- Melchizedek Scroll (11Q13)
- War Scroll (1QM)
- Thanksgiving Hymns (1QHᵃ)
- Habakkuk Commentary (1QpHab)
- Temple Scroll (11Q19)
- Aramaic Apocalypse / "Son of God" text (4Q246)
- Beatitudes (4Q525)
- Some Works of the Law (4Q394-399)
Further reading
Councils here
None in this list.