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Qumran, The Essenes and the Dead Sea Scrolls
Preamble

"The grass withers and the flowers fall but the word of our God stands forever" Isaiah 40.8

"Mohammed Dib, a Bedouin shepherd of the T'Amireh tribe" (Keller, 1957, 401) could not have known that he would be the person who, in 1947, would bring to bear the words of Isaiah 40.8
This shepherd boy had been clambering around the clefts and gullies of a rock face on Wadi Qumran, north of the Dead Sea hoping to find one of his lost lambs. Thinking that it could have taken refuge in a cave he threw stones at the opening. He heard a jar break, became fearful and ran to fetch his fellow tribesmen. What they discovered were written scrolls of ancient papyrus, stuffed in jars and wrapped in linen. The Bedouins thought that they could make money on the black market in Bethlehem so sold them for a few shekels. A bundle of four of these scrolls was purchased by "the Orthodox Archbishop of Jerusalem, Yeshue Samuel......

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