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The publication of the Dead Sea Scrolls is nearly completed. The last of the 38 volumes of scrolls and commentaries are in their final stages of preparation. One of the great finds of 20th-century archeology, the scrolls portray Jewish thinking in the period 2,000 years ago that produced rabbinic Judaism.

November 16, 2001
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The publication of the Dead Sea Scrolls is nearly completed. The last of the 38 volumes of scrolls and commentaries are in their final stages of preparation. One of the great finds of 20th-century archeology, the scrolls portray Jewish thinking in the period 2,000 years ago that produced rabbinic Judaism.

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