The mysteries of the Dead Sea

Collection title

Special reporter

ID

INA00703

Source

INA (FR)

First broadcast date

12/19/1996

Production year

1996

Abstract

In 1947, Muhammad El Dib, a young Bedouin from the Ta'amireh tribe, in pursuit of a goat, throws a rock in a cave near Qumran ruins, located about six miles from Jericho. El Dib gets into the cavity and discovers several rolls covered with inscriptions in Hebrew and Aramaic (ancient Semitic speaking), written between the 2nd century BC and the 1st century AD, by the Essenes, a Jewish community which settled in Qumran, on the western shore of the Dead Sea. Entrusted in 1952 to a committee for study, under the direction of the Catholic Father of Vaux, the manuscripts remained inaccessible to the world for forty years. Revealed by William Moffett, director of a U.S. library in 1991, the manuscripts show that the beliefs and practices of the Essenes were announcing Christianity.

Type

video

Production companies

• France 2 - Own production

Broadcaster

FTV - F2

Audiovisual form

Documentary

Primary theme

Judaism

Secondary themes

• Art, Culture and Knowledge / Languages and literatures
• Art, Culture and Knowledge / Writing, graphic culture
• Tourism and cultural sites / Archaeological sites

Credits / Cast

• Puech Emile - Participant

Period of events

• From 0 to 500

Map locations

• Palestine - West bank - Qumran

Original language

French

Media running time

32m18