Damascus Document
Documento de Damasco
- Date
- 1896-1897 · confidence high
- Place
- Cairo, Egypt
- Credited to
- Solomon Schechter
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
Fragmentary Hebrew text, foundational for the ancient Jewish community of Qumran, located by scholar Solomon Schechter among the manuscripts of the Cairo Geniza; copies would also turn up among the Dead Sea Scrolls half a century later.
What it led to
- First documentary clue to the Qumran community, before 1947
- Later comparison between the medieval and Qumran recensions
- Boost to Second Temple Judaism studies