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Dead Sea Scrolls May Solve a Decades-Old Mystery About the Qumran Calendar
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- A new study uses Hasmonean history and evidence from the Dead Sea Scrolls to address a decades-old mystery
- For decades, researchers have debated whether the Qumran sect’s unusual 364-day calendar ever governed daily religious life or existed only as an idealized system
- A Tel Aviv University study now proposes that both possibilities may be true [
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A new study uses Hasmonean history and evidence from the Dead Sea Scrolls to address a decades-old mystery. For decades, researchers have debated whether the Qumran sect’s unusual 364-day calendar ever governed daily religious life or existed only as an idealized system. A Tel Aviv University study now proposes that both possibilities may be true [...]
