Shrine of the Book
building, Israel
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Dead Sea Scrolls
The Shrine of the Book, which houses the Dead Sea Scrolls, at the Israel Museum in west Jerusalem.
The Shrine of the Book is a building within the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, opened in 1965. Its distinctive pagoda-like dome is designed to resemble the jars in which the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in 1947. The Shrine specifically houses these ancient manuscripts, which were found in the caves near the Dead Sea and are primarily written in Hebrew and Aramaic. These scrolls are believed to have formed the library of an ancient Jewish sect, likely the Essenes, and date to before the destruction of the Second Temple.12
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