12.24.2021 - By Avi ben Mordechai
Send us a Text Message.What does Damascus have to do with the desert wilderness of Qumran on the northwest shores of the Dead Sea? Damascus in Genesis 14:15 is more than just an ancient city in the Land of Aram ("Syria"). In the previous episode in this Dead Sea Scrolls series, I presented one possible reason why the infamous Qumran Community of the Dead Sea called their settlement "Damascus." In Hebrew, it is uniquely likely to join the two Hebrew words 1) doleh = he who dra...