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 2. The Dead Sea Scrolls, Israel.以色列的《死海古卷》

The collection of scrolls, which include several of the oldest known Hebrew biblical texts, was first discovered in 1947 by Bedouin shepherds in caves northwest of the Dead Sea, in what today is Israel's West Bank. A total of around 900 scrolls were found in later years. The Dead Sea Scrolls offer the most extensive testimony of religious life in the first century, a crucial time for the development of Christianity and modern Judaism.

在以色列一个实验室，一位专家在检查《死海古卷》的碎片。这个古卷系列记载了目前已知的最古老的希伯来文圣经经文，最早出土于1947年，是贝都因牧羊人在死海西北部的洞穴里发现的，如今，这里被称为以色列西岸。在随后几年里，总共有大约900卷经书被发掘出来。《死海古卷》为我们提供了关于公元一世纪时期宗教生活的最为详尽的描述，公元一世纪是基督教和现代犹太教发展的关键时期。