A new study uses Hasmonean history and evidence from the Dead Sea Scrolls to address a decades-old mystery. For decades, researchers have debated whether the Qumran sect’s unusual 364-day calendar ever governed daily religious life or existed only as an idealized system. A Tel Aviv University study now proposes that both possibilities may be true [...]
Dead Sea Scrolls May Solve a Decades-Old Mystery About the Qumran Calendar
