dead sea scrolls

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   (Old Testament) a collection of written scrolls (containing nearly all of the Old Testament) found in a cave near the Dead Sea in the late 1940s

   “the Dead Sea Scrolls provide information about Judaism and the Bible around the time of Jesus”

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Questions about dead sea scrolls

What does dead sea scrolls mean?

dead sea scrolls means "(Old Testament) a collection of written scrolls (containing nearly all of the Old Testament) found in a cave near the Dead Sea in the late 1940s".

Is dead sea scrolls a common word?

dead sea scrolls is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.