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    northwestern shore of the Dead Sea, whence they derive their name. Archaeologists have long associated the scrolls with the ancient Jewish sect known as the Essenes...
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    The Dead Sea (Arabic: اَلْبَحْر الْمَيِّت, romanized: al-Baḥr al-Mayyit, or اَلْبَحْر الْمَيْت, al-Baḥr al-Mayt; Hebrew: יַם הַמֶּלַח, romanized: Yām hamMelaḥ)...
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    7 days for the rest of the year. While some of the writings at the Dead Sea sect or Qumran state the 4th day, other writings such as HaYubilim XLIV:1...
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    later described also in the Book of Jubilees which was used by the Dead Sea sect. The use of this calendar made it impossible to celebrate the festivals...
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    Dead Sea sect and finally to Jewish law (halacha) of the Mishnah and Talmud. Best known for his comprehensive Torah commentaries and work on the Dead...
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    Qumran Caves (category Dead Sea Scrolls)
    that the caves "did not serve as habitations for the members of the Dead Sea Sect, but rather as stores and hiding places". It was discovered that under...
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  • Monogamy (category All articles with dead external links)
    Halakha of the Dead Sea Sect saw prohibition of polygamy as coming from the Pentateuch (Damascus Document 4:20–5:5, one of the Dead Sea Scrolls). Christianity...
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    Qumran (category Dead Sea Scrolls)
    that the caves "did not serve as habitations for the members of the Dead Sea Sect, but rather as stores and hiding places". From mid-November 1993 to...
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  • Essenes (category Extinct Jewish sects)
    Ἐσσηνοί, Ἐσσαῖοι, or Ὀσσαῖοι, Essenoi, Essaioi, Ossaioi) were a mystic Jewish sect during the Second Temple period that flourished from the 2nd century BCE...
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  • Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls is a book was written by Lawrence Schiffman, published in 1994 by Doubleday, as part of the Anchor Research Library. The...
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    Schiffman. "The New Halakhic Letter (4QMMT) and the Origins of the Dead Sea Sect." Biblical Archaeologist, volume 53 (number 2) (June 1990): pages 64–73...
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    Books. ISBN 978-0-9153-6192-2. ——— (1989). The Spiritual History of the Dead Sea Sect. Translated by Glucker, Carol. MOD Press. ——— (1998). Jesus (second...
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    Schiffman. "The New Halakhic Letter (4QMMT) and the Origins of the Dead Sea Sect." Biblical Archaeologist. Volume 53 (number 2) (June 1990): pages 64–73...
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    Lawrence Schiffman (category Dead Sea Scrolls)
    Messianism in the Dead Sea Sect). Jerusalem: Merkaz Shazar. ISBN 9789652270740. OCLC 28076375. – (in Hebrew) ——— (1994). Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls. Philadelphia...
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    Teacher of Righteousness (category Dead Sea Scrolls)
    some of the Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran, most prominently in the Damascus Document. This document speaks briefly of the origins of the sect, probably Essenes...
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  • memory of the dead. Apart from the cremation method, several sects in Hinduism follow the practice of burial of the dead. In some sects, the important...
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  • Sadducees (category Extinct Jewish sects)
    originated as a sect of Zadokites, which would indicate that the group itself had priestly, and thus Sadducaic origins. Within the Dead Sea Scrolls, the...
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  • this book as disputing the conventional wisdom that Dead Sea Scrolls related to the communal sect of the Essenes, and that their presumed monastery is...
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    Mandaeism (redirect from Mandaean sect)
    becoming -dd-). This etymology suggests that the Mandaeans may well be the only sect surviving from late antiquity to identify themselves explicitly as Gnostics...
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    Alawites (redirect from Alawi sect)
    group that live primarily in the Levant and follow Alawism, a religious sect that splintered from early Shi'ism as a ghulat branch during the ninth century...
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  • "The Joy of Sect" is the thirteenth episode of the ninth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox...
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  • Jesus: The Key to Unlocking the Secrets of early Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrolls is a 1997 book by American archaeologist and Biblical scholar Robert...
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  • Jerusalem School of Synoptic Research (category All articles with dead external links)
    Fig Tree" 107-120 • Steven Notley, "Eschatological Thinking of the Dead Sea Sect and the Order of the Christian Eucharist" 121-138 • Marc Turnage, "Jesus...
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  • "Mass graves found in sect house". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 March 2005. Robinson, Simon (3 April 2000). "Uganda's Faithful Dead". TIME. Vol. 155, no...
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  • "fourth sect" of 1st-century Judaism (the first three being the Sadducees, the Pharisees, and the Essenes). Josephus blamed this fourth sect for the First...
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    Umibōzu (redirect from Sea bonze)
    were of no specific sect or religion as they are only ever described as pitiable sailors, the victims of an attack. Sea draugr Sea monk The word "shark'...
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    Jewish Christians were the followers of a Jewish religious sect that emerged in Judea during the late Second Temple period (first century AD). These Jews...
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  • 1604 把 手 7 S 1981 grasp ハ ha 1605 波 水 8 3 wave ハ、なみ ha, nami 1606 派 水 9 6 sect ハ ha 1607 破 石 10 5 rend ハ、やぶ-る、やぶ-れる ha, yabu-ru, yabu-reru 1608 覇 霸 雨 19...
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  • scholars have identified the Boethusians with the Essenes, the sect that produced the Dead Sea Scrolls. Some of the scrolls express views similar to those...
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    shintō), the folk religion of Japan, developed a diversity of schools and sects, outbranching from the original Ko-Shintō (ancient Shintō) since Buddhism...
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