First recorded evidence of Yom Kippur depicts day of affliction as sectarian struggle

Prof. Yonatan Adler, author of 'The Origins of Judaism,' cites dramatic passage from the Dead Sea Scrolls that shows Hasmonean-era jostling for religious authority

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