QUMRAN LIBRARY

Qumran Library

The first library dated back to the third century B.C.E. to 68 C.E. This library had scrolls in it and also jewelry. This famous library in the Qumran Library.

The Qumran Library in located in a barren terrace between the limestone cliffs on the Judean Desert and the maritime bed along the Dead Sea. In 1947, some Bedouin shepards went looking for a lost goat and found eleven caves with segments of scrolls in them. Two thousand years have passed between the time when the scrolls were deposited until they were found in 1947. The site was excavated by Pere Roland de Vaux, a French Dominican.

The scrolls demonstrated rich literacy activity that sheds insight into centuries with both Christianity and Judaism. The scrolls are in different languages such as Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. There were Biblical things like the Hebrew Bible containing all the books of the bible, but Esther was also in the library. The people who are thought to have written some of the scrolls were the Essenes. The library contains some books or works in a large number of copies, but others are represented by fragments of parchment.

Lots of books have been written about the Dead Sea scrolls. One of the books was written in December of 1991, a two-volume edition of scroll photographs.

Even though the Qumran Library is the oldest library ever known, it is still the most interesting library ever.

Resources:

http://sunsite.unc.edu/expo/deadsea.scrolls.exhibit/Today/today.html

http://sunsite.unc.edu/expo/deadsea.scrolls.exhibit/intro.html

http://sunsite.unc.edu/expo/deadsea.scrolls.exhibit/Community/communit.html

http://sunsite.unc.edu/expo/deadsea.scrolls.exhibit/world.scrolls.html

http://sunsite.unc.edu/expo/deadsea.scrolls.exhibit/Community/pottery.html

By: Megan M.

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