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Sep 1, 2023 · The Dead Sea is a large body of salt water on the southern end of the Jordan River. Cited sixteen times in the Bible, the Dead Sea is mentioned primarily to describe the borders of the Promised Land.
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Jun 6, 2019 · The Dead Sea is mentioned in the Bible – it was famous even during that period. Several different sects of Jews used to lives in the caves near the Dead Sea. The most famous of these were the Essenes, who have left us the original Bible scrolls – but more on them later.
- Esther is the only Old Testament book not found in the scrolls. The majority of the Dead Sea Scrolls are extrabiblical writings, but among the more than 900 scrolls are over 200 copies of Old Testament books.
- The Hebrew Bible wasn’t canonized yet. 60 percent of the Dead Sea Scrolls are not included in the Tanakh or Old Testament. And among the copies of biblical books, there are multiple versions.
- There may be a guide to hidden treasure. One unique scroll scholars found is made of copper (and a tiny bit of tin). Known as the “Copper Scroll,” it lists 64 locations—63 of which contain items of gold or silver.
- Most of the scrolls are about 2,000 years old. Scholars used both radiocarbon dating and paleographic dating to estimate the age of the scrolls, and the results were similar.
Fact: The Dead Sea is the saltiest body of water in the world. Nearly 35 percent salt, it is six times saltier than the ocean and twice as salty the Great Salt Lake in Utah. In Ezekiel's vision, the water from the temple turned the Dead Sea into fresh water .
Sep 2, 2014 · Has it always been “dead”? And then there are the questions of its Biblical importance. What does the Bible tell us about the origins of the Dead Sea? What exactly did Abraham and Lot see when they looked at the Valley of Siddam? Where were Sodom and Gomorrah and how where they destroyed?
If the geological signs have been read right, the Dead Sea was initially formed when a Miocene “earth storm” trapped the fringe of the ancient Mediterranean (or “Tethys”) between the walls of the subsiding Rift, and when the inland sea that once extended from the slopes of Hermon to the central Arabah subsequently shrank into the ...
Genesis 14, one of the most puzzling episodes in the Bible, tells of a strange and unlikely war: Five petty kings, including the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah, rebel against an overlord king, Chedorlaomer, and his three allies. The battlefield is described both as a valley and a sea (Genesis 14:3).
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