Can We Find the Lost Treasures of the Mikdash?
Dear Catriel, We’ve been hearing for years about the Temple treasures and people’s attempts to find them. This subject fascinates my tourists no end and they often mention Vendyl Jones – supposedly the role model of Indiana Jones, the swashbuckling archeologist from “The Raiders of the Lost Ark”. They think his efforts to find the holy vessels of the Temple so exciting. In particular, they mention the Copper Scroll, which is supposed to be a sort of a roadmap for potential treasure hunters. Is there any truth to this and has he, or anyone else, ever found genuine Temple relics? Our people are very interested in this. Thank you, DG The Dead Sea Scrolls, one of which is the Copper Scroll, comprise roughly 850 remarkable manuscripts, including texts from the Tanach, discovered between 1947 and 1956 in eleven caves in and around Wadi Qumran (on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea) in Israel. The scrolls fall into three major categories: Biblical texts, books of the apocrypha, and “sectaria
