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Originally appeared on spirituality.com
The history of the Dead Sea Scrolls is full of adventure. There’s the story of the Bedouin shepherds who discovered the first seven and took them to an antiquities dealer in Bethlehem—the nearest market town—and launched what amounted to a “scroll rush” as both scholars and Bedouin searched for more.
Then there is the unique copper scroll, so fragile that it had to be cut apart. It turned out to be a map to extraordinary treasure that still hasn’t been found. (For more on the copper scroll, read “Quick facts about the Dead Sea Scrolls”—see the link at the bottom of this page.)
There was also the battle between the scholars who were approved to work on the scrolls—a fairly small group—and other academics around the world who also wanted access to these priceless materials. All these stories—and more—have touched people associated with the scrolls since they were first discovered in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
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