who lived in qumran caves?
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Qumran, the guides say, was home to a community of Jewish ascetics called the Essenes, who devoted their lives to writing and preserving sacred texts. They were hard at work by the time Jesus began preaching; ultimately they stored the scrolls in 11 caves before Romans destroyed their settlement in A.D. 68.
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Jehu (Hebrew: יֵהוּא Yehu, meaning "Yahu is He"; Akkadian: Ia-ú-a; Latin: Iehu) was the tenth king of the northern Kingdom of Israel since Jeroboam I, noted for exterminating the house of Ahab. He was the son of Jehoshaphat, grandson of Nimshi, and possibly great-grandson of Omri.
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Moabite, member of a West-Semitic people who lived in the highlands east of the Dead Sea (now in west-central Jordan) and flourished in the 9th century bc. They are known principally through information given in the Old Testament and from the inscription on the Moabite Stone.
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Cyrus II, founder of the Achaemenian dynasty of Persia and conqueror of Babylonia, in 538 bc issued an order allowing exiled Jews to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the Temple. Work was completed in 515 bc.
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In Catal Huyuk, the houses were made of mud brick. Houses were built touching against each other. They did not have doors and houses were entered through hatches in roofs. Presumably having entrances in the roofs was safer than having them in the walls.
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The Hittites were an ancient people that lived in the Anatolia region in Asia Minor, which is modern day Turkey. The Bible says the Hittites were descendants of Ham, one of Noah's sons. The Hittites rose to great power and prosperity during the 14th to the 11th centuries and became the powerful Hatti Empire.
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According to the Hebrew Bible, the Zuzim or Zuzites (meaning "restless" or "roaming") were a tribe who lived in Ham, a land east of the Jordan River between Bashan and Moab. The Zuzim were conquered by the Elamite King Chedorlaomer (Genesis 14:5).
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['The building of the tombs of the Valley of Kings.', 'The great Pharaohs included Queen Hatshepsut (the famous female Pharaoh), Akhenaten, Tutankhamun, Tuthmose and Ramses II.', 'King Akhenaten established a new religious order worshipping the sun god Aten.']
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Araunah (Hebrew: אֲרַוְנָה 'Ǎrawnāh) was a Jebusite mentioned in the Second Book of Samuel, who owned the threshing floor on Mount Moriah which David purchased and used as the site for assembling an altar to God. The First Book of Chronicles, a later text, renders his name as Ornan (Hebrew: אָרְנָן 'Ārənān).
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Meaning unknown, possibly of Akkadian origin or possibly meaning "rebel" in Hebrew. In the Old Testament Nimrod is a renowned hunter, the great-grandson of Noah. He was the founder of Babylon. Due to the biblical character, this name was adopted as an English-language vocabulary word meaning "hunter".
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['Temple of Karnak. Temple of Karnak. ... ', 'Valley of the Kings. Valley of the Kings. ... ', 'Luxor Temple. Luxor Temple. ... ', "Temple of Deir al-Bahri (Queen Hatshepsut's Temple) Temple of Deir al-Bahri (Queen Hatshepsut's Temple) ... ", 'Luxor Museum. ... ', 'Medinet Habu. ... ', 'Tombs of the Nobles. ... ', 'Colossi of Memnon.']
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['Sephoria, where the Virgin Mary was said to have spent her childhood.', "The River Jordan, site of Christ's baptism.", 'Cave dwelling of John the Baptist.', 'Syria.', 'Galilee (North Israel/South Lebanon)', 'Sea of Galilee.']
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Throughout much of the 11th century BC, the biblical books of Joshua, Judges, and Samuel use the term Sidonian to describe all Phoenicians; by the tenth century BC, Tyre rose to become the richest and most powerful Phoenician city state, particularly during the reign of Hiram I (c. 969–936 BC).
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Caleb, in the Old Testament, one of the spies sent by Moses from Kadesh in southern Palestine to spy out the land of Canaan. Only Caleb and Joshua advised the Hebrews to proceed immediately to take the land; for his faith Caleb was rewarded with the promise that he and his descendants should possess it (Numbers 13–14).
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The cave dwellers of southern Spain. Known as the trogloditas, Guadix locals have been living in these underground houses for hundreds of years. Upon arrival at the bus station, Guadix looked like any other small Andalucían town, with whitewashed townhouses and charming, shaded plazas.
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Itai HaGiti was one of King David's army Generals. He was not Hebrew, but rather a Philistine (plishti - an ancient people that lived in the land of Israel) from the city of Gath, next to Ashkelon.
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Rebecca was buried in the cave in the field of Machpelah near Mamre, in the land of Canaan (Gen 49:31). According to the Talmud, the Torah's explicit dating of the life of Ishmael helps to date various events in Jacob's life and, by implication, the age of Rebecca at her death.