It is the lowest place on the face of the Earth. the sea is so salty, nothing can live in it. Yet small settlements along the west bank of this dead sea, Jewish scholars once sought refuge from the moral decay of their time. The refuge ended shortly after the time of Christ. Roman conquerors increased their stranglehold on the holy land. Even the suggestion of dissension was intolerable. So, the emperors legions crushed the settlements of the rabbis...
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