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Santería
Santería

Santería was ‘discovered’ by Western scientists around 1940. Over the next 50 years, several ethnographic studies were performed among those who practiced the religion. The word ‘Santería’ translates literally into “The Religion”. It was not recognized as an official protected religion until 1993 (Brown 2003: 4-5). This religion was classified as Afro-Cuban and it possessed its own art and music.

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The Dead Sea Scrolls
The Dead Sea Scrolls

Among the 972 documents, which had degraded into several pieces numbering over 50,000, were records of rules about everyday living and multiple copies of several biblical books. About a quarter are books that belong to the Hebrew Bible, also known as the Christian Old Testament.

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