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unusual facts about the Dead Sea



William Cowper Prime

He published Boat Life in Egypt and Nubia and Tent Life in the Holy Land based on his experiences there, which include his accounts of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Dead Sea, and the port of Jaffa, among others.


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Al Karak

In 1132 King Fulk, the Crusader king of Jerusalem, made Pagan the Butler Lord of Montreal and Oultrejourdain, the lands east of the River Jordan and the Dead Sea.

Alvar Ellegård

He identifies the figure Paul of Tarsus had a vision of as corresponding to the Essene Teacher of Righteousness, the leader of the Essenes at Qumran about 150 years before the gospels, and writes that it was Paul who created Christianity through his contacts with the sect that kept the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Arava

Arabah, a section of the Great Rift Valley between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba in Israel and Jordan.

Aravah

Arabah, a section of the Jordan Rift Valley on the border between Israel and Jordan, south of the Dead Sea and north of the Gulf of Aqaba.

Book of Enoch

The relation between 1 Enoch and the Essenes was noted even before the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Book of Secrets

The Book of Mysteries, also known as The Book of Secrets, an ancient Essene text found in fragmentary form among the Dead Sea Scrolls

Daniel the Traveller

He learned much of the regions from his three major excursions to the Dead Sea and Lower Jordan (which he compares to the Snov River), Bethlehem and Hebron, and Damascus.

Dead Sea canal

Red Sea–Dead Sea Canal, a proposed conduit (pipes and brine canal) which would run from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea

Mediterranean–Dead Sea Canal, a proposed project to dig a canal from the Mediterranean Sea to the Dead Sea, taking advantage of the 400-metre difference in water level between the seas

Essenes

Pliny, also a geographer and explorer, located them in the desert near the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in the year 1947 by Muhammed edh-Dhib and Ahmed Mohammed, two Bedouin shepherds of the Ta'amireh tribe.

Eugene Ulrich

Ulrich co-authored The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible with Martin Abegg and Peter Flint.

Herod the Great

He and Cleopatra owned a monopoly over the extraction of asphalt from the Dead Sea, which was used in shipbuilding.

Israel Chemicals

After Israel's independence in 1948, the extraction of minerals from the Dead Sea carried on with the establishment of Dead Sea Works Ltd.

Red Sea–Dead Sea Canal

The agreement was signed on the Dead Sea by Jordanian Water Minister Raed Abu Soud, Israeli Infrastructure Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer and Palestinian Planning Minister Ghassan al-Khatib.

Samuel Ifor Enoch

Enoch was involved in the interpretation of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and his 1968 monograph 'The Jesus of Faith and the Dead Sea Scrolls' is a notable work.

Strugnell

John Strugnell (1930–2007), British scholar who worked on the Dead Sea Scrolls

The Year of the Quiet Sun

The parallels were made explicit through Biblical motifs that appear throughout the novel, with characters paralleling types out of the Dead Sea scrolls and such apocalyptic imagery as a radioactive Lake Michigan substituting for the lake of fire in the Book of Revelation.

Tribe of Reuben

The Tribe of Reuben was allocated the territory immediate east of the Dead Sea, reaching from the Arnon river in the south, and as far north as the Dead Sea stretched, with an eastern border vaguely defined by the land dissolving into desert; the territory included the plain of Madaba.

William Schniedewind

Schniedewind is listed in the 2007 Distinguished Lecturer Series Speaker Biographies in the Dead Sea Scroll exhibition at the San Diego Natural History Museum.