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What other findings were discovered near the Dead Sea?

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These findings, written in Greek, Aramaic, and Nabataean, included biblical fragments, psalms, various legal documents, and a lost Greek translation of the minor prophets. The oldest documents, found at a site 8 mi (13 km) N of Jericho , were left by Samarians massacred by Alexander the Great in 331 BC.

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