English noun: Dead Sea scrolls | |||
1. | Dead Sea scrolls (communication) (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 | ||
Samples | The Dead Sea Scrolls provide information about Judaism and the Bible around the time of Jesus. | ||
Instance hypernym | roll, scroll | ||
Domain category | Old Testament | ||