Crusades (wars of the cross)
The Christian crusaders were fighting in the name God. They wore a cross and their Battle slogan was ”God wills it” and they use to say these words loudly while fighting the holy war.
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The image on this pages shows a fragment of one of the Dead Sea Scrolls, which were accidentally discovered in 1947 after remaining hidden for nearly 2,000 years.
Dead Sea Scrolls
These are manuscripts discovered in the Qumran Caves near the Dead Sea in Jordan. Many finds have been made and we now have thousands of scrolls and fragments. The scrolls, which were stored in jars, date from between the first century B.C. and the early first century A.D. They include a copy of the book of Isaiah almost a thousand years older than any previously discovered manuscript of the Bible. Fragments have been found of most books of the Old Testament.
Other important scrolls are connected with the Qumran sect which hid them. They include a rule-book called the Manual of Discipline and an allegorical work called The War of the Sons of Light with the Sons of Darkness. Some scholars believe that the sect was the Essenes, a strict and puritanical community.
A shepherd is said to have found the first Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947. Scholars are still studying the thousands of fragments, some of which throw new light on the development of Jewish and Christian beliefs.
