SWDGISS: The Dead Sea Scrolls
Faith Adjacent
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Did Mohammed the Wolf Get a Payment?
No one believed these scrolls could actually exist, to the point that tons of scholars literally looked at them and were like, this is worthless. They ended up at the rockefeller museum in jerusalem, where no one really knew how to preserve or take care of parchment this old. The arab disraeli war really complicated getting the scrolls into the hands of experts that might be able to understand their value. But excavations continued from like 19 51, on and off, through 20 20 and ther's still a little bit of digging going on right now. I they recently discovered what might be the oldest basket, it's over ten thousand years old, inthis cave, in these webs
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