And they go to the desert to get away from what they see to ... So some forms of Judaism in this period don't ever talk about a Messiah. At Qumran, on the other hand, among the Dead Sea Scrolls ...

The calendar was important to the Qumran sect, a hermitic group living in the Judaean Desert. Unlike the imperfect lunar calendar that depended on human observation and discretion, their calendar ...

The Qumran caves are in the Israeli-occupied West ... who have become a driving force behind the search for long-lost biblical texts in desert caves, remote monasteries, and Middle Eastern ...

Subsequently, additional tefillin cases were unearthed in other caves near Qumran, in Wadi Murabba‘at and in Nahal Se’elim – all in the Judean Desert. These findings are dated to the same ...