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Story of the Dead sea Scrolls
In 1947 a Bedouin looking for a stray goat in the western region of the Dead Sea area, made the greatest find of this century by discovering the now famous Dead Sea Scrolls. An Arab shepherd named Mohammed Edib, looking for a lost goat, threw a stone into the opening of a cave and heard the clatter of something breaking. He ran away afraid thinking that the cave was inhabited by spirits. On the next day, however, he called his cousin and both entered the cave and found eight jars, some with their lids still on; they took the jars outside and started searching in hope of finding gold inside them. They were disappointed when they found only bundles of leather with columns of writing of which they were unable to understand the slightest thing. A total of seven scrolls were found. One day the Bedouin brought his strange find to a Syrian Christian named Khalil Kando and sold them to him. Kando took four of the scrolls he had bought and showed them to the Metropolitan who resided in Jerusalem. I The Metropolitan recognised the four scrolls as ancient Hebrew writing and immediately bought them. In 1949, after realising that the scrolls were of great value, he took them to the United States where they were bought by Professor Yigael Yadin for $250,000 and then brought to Israel. Professor Eleazar Sukenik, Yadin's father, had already purchased the other three scrolls from Bethlehem. The scrolls are now exhibited in the Shrine of the Book at the Israel Museum, in Jerusalem. The most famous scroll is the one of Isaiah which is one foot wide by 24 feet long. Professor Harding, director of antiquities in Jordan, Pbre de Vaux, director of the Ecole Biblique and the Bedouins, aware of the high price of the scrolls, started searching all over the western region of the Dead Sea. More than 900 pieces of scrolls were found in more than 30 caves. The largest quantity of manuscript came from cave IV, discovered by the Bedouin in 1952 and only 100 yards from the Ruins of Qumran. The scrolls were written on leather and papyrus, apart from two, which were written on copper.
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