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• History of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Qumran (April 29)

• Discovery of the scrolls

• Materials used in the scrolls and dating of the materials

• Qumran archaeology and history

• Theories about the community of Qumran

• Scrolls Describing Life in the Qumran Community (May 6)

• Damascus Document* (30-1 BCE)

• Community Rule* (95 BCE-122 CE)

• Book of War* (20-50 CE)

• The Alma Scroll* (134 CE)

• Religious Scrolls (May 13)

• Leviticus* (1-50 CE)

• Deuteronomy* (125-75 BCE)

• Isaiah* (75-1 BCE)

• Psalms* (1-50 BCE)

• Apocryphal texts and commentaries*

• The Scrolls and the Old and New Testament (May 20)

• Significance of older manuscripts for the Old Testament

• Similarities between scrolls and New Testament books

• Practices of the Qumran community compared with those of the early Christians

• *These scrolls will be shown at the museum exhibition.