Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun dead_sea_scrolls

1 sense of dead sea scrolls

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Dead Sea scrolls -- ((Old Testament) a collection of written scrolls (containing nearly all of the Old Testament) found in a cave near the Dead Sea in the late 1940s; "the Dead Sea Scrolls provide information about Judaism and the Bible around the time of Jesus")
       INSTANCE OF=> scroll, roll -- (a document that can be rolled up (as for storage))