What is the meaning of Dead Sea scrolls?

noun

  • 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. (
    • usage: "the Dead Sea Scrolls provide information about Judaism and the Bible around the time of Jesus"
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