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Dead Sea scrolls, n.

(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
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Dead Sea scrolls

sample sentences

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

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instance hypernym

scroll, roll

domain of synset (topic)

Old Testament