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ROCK-HEWN CAVES in the cliffs around Qumran provided fragments of 972 separate documents. Painstakingly reassembled, edited, and translated, those writings have become an invaluable source for understanding the beliefs and practices of ancient Jewish sects and Christian origins. The documents discovered in Cave 4 (pictured here) include many written in Aramaic.