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Temple Scroll

Megillat ha-Miqdash

The longest Dead Sea Scroll rewrites and expands Torah law as direct first-person divine speech rather than Moses's third-person report, laying out an idealized Temple plan and purity code the sect believed the actual Jerusalem Temple failed to meet.

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  • Torah · composed c. 9th-5th century BC

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