Dead Sea scrolls
- a collection of Hebrew and Aramaic manuscripts discovered in pottery storage jars in caves near Qumran between 1947 and 1956. Thought to have been hidden by the Essenes or a similar Jewish sect shortly before the revolt against Roman rule AD 66-70, the scrolls include texts of many books of the Old Testament; they are some 1,000 years older than previously known versions.死海古卷（在1947和1956年间发现的放在古姆兰附近洞穴里的陶制贮藏罐中希伯来和亚拉姆手稿, 被认为是艾赛尼派或是某一相似犹太部族在公元66-70年反罗马起义之前藏起的, 古卷包括《旧约》中的多卷, 比之前知道的版本要早约1,000年）。