Cover of The Dead Sea scrolls

The Dead Sea scrolls

by Millar Burrows

1955 435 pages eng

Early in 1947, a fifteen-year-old Bedouin boy discovered a cave at the edge of the Dead Sea. In it were broken jars containing scrolls of leather wrapped in linen cloth, inscribed in a strange writing. Soon recognized as "the greatest manuscript discovery of modern times," the chance finding of the …

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