Who Found The Dead Sea Scrolls?
The collection of scrolls – rolls of ancient manuscripts were found by two Bedouin shepherds of the Ta’amira Tribe who were seeking lost goats in the forbidding cliffs along the gorge adjoining Qumran and at the falling away of the entrance to an ancient cave, where they observed that the tumbling stone had broken the lids of jars in the cave and exposed the end of scrolls in them. The cave must have contained between 40 and 60 cylindrical jars. Sensing that the scrolls might have monetary value, the Bedouins took some of the linen-wrapped rolls to Bethlehem. Soon after the discovery of the Dead sea Scrolls, large scale archaeological excavations were carried out at the site if Qumran and in its environs. Apart from the book of Esther, all book of the Old Testament were found as well as some books of the Apocrypha, commentaries, and scrolls dealing with the sect’s code of ethics and beliefs. These old Testament manuscripts are almost 1000 years older than previously know manuscripts bu
Mysteries and the sea seem to go hand in hand and you have already learn about ghost ships, rogue waves, Lochness monster and the Bermuda triangle. Yet there is another mystery which isn’t exactly buried under the ocean but gets its name from its proximity to equally strange body of water – the Dead Sea (please note that it is not the sea of the dead but the Dead Sea). So what is this Dead Sea and what is the mystery surrounding it – just read on this interesting article to find out.
