Kohlit Explained

Kohlit or Kohalit is a place name used in rabbinic literature, and more famously in the Copper Scroll, a unique "treasure map" discovered among the Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS). It is unknown whether the two sources are referring to the same place.

Copper Scroll

Kohlit is a place, possibly a hill, mentioned several times in the Copper Scroll, one of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Kohlit has become something of a modern-day El Dorado for treasure hunters.

It is indicated as the area where the second Copper Scroll, containing a more detailed list, is buried.^[1]

Babylonian Talmud

Kohalit is also named in b. Qid. 66a (b. Qiddushin 66a; that is chapter 66a of tractate Kiddushin of the Babylonian Talmud) as an area east of the Jordan River where Alexander Jannaeus had led a successful military campaign.^{[2] [3] [4]}

Bibliography

• Web site: January 25, 2005 . The Dead Sea Scrolls: Sectarian Texts . Donald W. Parry . Stephen D. Ricks . Meridian Magazine . https://web.archive.org/web/20010304064147/http://meridianmagazine.com/farms/000804scrolls4print.html . March 4, 2001 . dead . Stephen D. Ricks . Donald W. Parry .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Hack & Carey: The Copper Scroll: 3Q15. November 23, 1998. 17 April 2017.
2. Book: Schiffman, Lawrence H. . Texts and Traditions: A Source Reader for the Study of Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism . 6.2.12 Babylonian Talmud Qiddushin 66a: King Alexander Janneus and the Pharisees . 274 . KTAV Publishing House . 1998 . 9780881254556 . https://books.google.com/books?id=VFhwknlb_FAC&pg=PA274 . 14 May 2020.
3. Web site: orion Alexander Jannaeus . Stephen . Goranson . Orion Center mailing list submission . January 25, 2005.
4. Web site: Jannaeus, His Brother Absalom, and Judah the Essene . Stephen . Goranson . 15 . 3 August 2005 . 14 May 2020.