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    Haifa University: We've decoded another Qumran scroll

    Haifa University researchers decoded one of the last Qumran scrolls yet to be decoded. The scroll deals with the Judean Desert sect known as the "Together Community" which used a 364-day calendar as opposed to the lunar calendar used by classic Jewish communities. The fact that 364 divides by 4 and 7 meant that the holidays would always fall on the same day each year.

    Researchers discovered that the sect also celebrated the day marking the passage between the different seasons.