Kohlit or Kohalit (Hebrew: כּוֹחֲלִית) 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

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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

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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]

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  1. ^ "Hack & Carey: The Copper Scroll: 3Q15". November 23, 1998. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  2. ^ Schiffman, Lawrence H. (1998). "6.2.12 Babylonian Talmud Qiddushin 66a: King Alexander Janneus and the Pharisees". Texts and Traditions: A Source Reader for the Study of Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism. KTAV Publishing House. p. 274. ISBN 9780881254556. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  3. ^ Goranson, Stephen. "orion Alexander Jannaeus". Orion Center mailing list submission. Retrieved January 25, 2005.
  4. ^ Goranson, Stephen (3 August 2005). "Jannaeus, His Brother Absalom, and Judah the Essene" (PDF). p. 15. Retrieved 14 May 2020.

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