Dead Sea Scrolls
E19399
The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of ancient Jewish manuscripts discovered near Qumran that include some of the oldest known biblical texts and shed light on Second Temple Judaism.
All labels observed (13)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T157768 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: Dead Sea Scrolls Context triple: [Septuagint, relatedTo, Dead Sea Scrolls]
-
A.
Anno Mundi
Anno Mundi is a year-numbering system that dates events from the traditional Jewish calculation of the world's creation in the Hebrew calendar.
-
B.
Tanakh
The Tanakh is the canonical collection of Hebrew scriptures that forms the foundational religious text of Judaism, encompassing the Torah (Law), Nevi'im (Prophets), and Ketuvim (Writings).
-
C.
New Testament manuscripts
New Testament manuscripts are ancient handwritten copies of the Christian New Testament texts, preserved in various languages and forms and serving as the primary evidence for reconstructing the original biblical writings.
-
D.
Talmud
The Talmud is a central Jewish religious text comprising rabbinic discussions, legal rulings, and interpretations of the Hebrew Bible that form the foundation of traditional Jewish law and theology.
-
E.
Septuagint
The Septuagint is an ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures that became the primary Old Testament text for early Christians and Greek-speaking Jews.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Dead Sea Scrolls Target entity description: The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of ancient Jewish manuscripts discovered near Qumran that include some of the oldest known biblical texts and shed light on Second Temple Judaism.
-
A.
Anno Mundi
Anno Mundi is a year-numbering system that dates events from the traditional Jewish calculation of the world's creation in the Hebrew calendar.
-
B.
Tanakh
The Tanakh is the canonical collection of Hebrew scriptures that forms the foundational religious text of Judaism, encompassing the Torah (Law), Nevi'im (Prophets), and Ketuvim (Writings).
-
C.
New Testament manuscripts
New Testament manuscripts are ancient handwritten copies of the Christian New Testament texts, preserved in various languages and forms and serving as the primary evidence for reconstructing the original biblical writings.
-
D.
Talmud
The Talmud is a central Jewish religious text comprising rabbinic discussions, legal rulings, and interpretations of the Hebrew Bible that form the foundation of traditional Jewish law and theology.
-
E.
Septuagint
The Septuagint is an ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures that became the primary Old Testament text for early Christians and Greek-speaking Jews.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (63)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Jewish religious text
ⓘ
ancient manuscript collection ⓘ archaeological discovery ⓘ biblical manuscript ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Essenes
ⓘ
Qumran community ⓘ
linked to:
Essenes
Second Temple Judaism ⓘ |
| chronology | 3rd century BCE to 1st century CE ⓘ |
| containsTextType |
apocryphal works
ⓘ
biblical texts ⓘ commentaries ⓘ community rules ⓘ hymns ⓘ legal texts ⓘ liturgical texts ⓘ pesharim ⓘ pseudepigraphal works ⓘ sectarian writings ⓘ |
| country | State of Palestine ⓘ |
| currentLocation |
Israel Museum
ⓘ
Jordan Museum ⓘ Shrine of the Book ⓘ various university and national libraries ⓘ |
| discoveredBy | Bedouin shepherds ⓘ |
| discoveredIn | 1947 ⓘ |
| discoveredNear |
Khirbet Qumran
ⓘ
linked to:
Qumran
|
| discoveryMethod | cave exploration ⓘ |
| earliestManuscriptsDateTo | 3rd century BCE ⓘ |
| includesWork |
Community Rule
ⓘ
Copper Scroll ⓘ Great Isaiah Scroll ⓘ Habakkuk Commentary ⓘ Thanksgiving Hymns ⓘ War Scroll ⓘ |
| influencedField |
Jewish studies
ⓘ
biblical studies ⓘ early Christianity studies ⓘ history of Judaism ⓘ paleography ⓘ textual criticism ⓘ |
| language |
Aramaic
ⓘ
Greek ⓘ Hebrew ⓘ |
| latestManuscriptsDateTo | 1st century CE ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Judean Desert
ⓘ
Qumran region ⓘ
linked to:
Qumran
West Bank ⓘ |
| majorSite |
Qumran Cave 1
ⓘ
linked to:
Qumran
Qumran Cave 11 ⓘ
linked to:
Qumran
Qumran Cave 4 ⓘ
linked to:
Qumran
|
| numberOfFragmentsApprox | 15000 ⓘ |
| numberOfManuscriptsApprox | 900 ⓘ |
| periodCovered | late Second Temple period ⓘ |
| preservationEnvironment | dry desert climate ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| significance |
important for textual criticism of the Bible
ⓘ
oldest known surviving manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible ⓘ shed light on Judaism in the Second Temple period ⓘ |
| writingMaterial |
copper
ⓘ
papyrus ⓘ parchment ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Aramaic alphabet
ⓘ
linked to:
Aramaic alphabet (historically)
Hebrew alphabet ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Subject: Dead Sea Scrolls Description of subject: The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of ancient Jewish manuscripts discovered near Qumran that include some of the oldest known biblical texts and shed light on Second Temple Judaism.
Referenced by (40)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.