Eleazar Sukenik's The Dead Sea Scrolls

The Dead Sea Scrolls are a group of ancient scrolls found by the Dead Sea in a cave. In 1947, a Bedouin shepherd tossed a stone into a cave close to the northwest shore of the Dead Sea, in Qumran. Rather than the sound of the stone striking rock or earth, he heard the sound of breaking pottery. Upon investigating he saw a number of tall clay jars. Together with a cousin, he entered the cave, where he found one jar containing some scrolls. The two began showing them to people, looking for a buyer. Eventually, they sold some of the scrolls to Kando, a local cobbler who dealt in antiques. Archaeologist Eleazar Sukenik managed to buy three for the Hebrew University. Mar Athanasius Samuel the head of the Syrian Orthodox Church in Jerusalem purchased the remaining four. Samuel smuggled his four scrolls to America, and placed an advertisement in the “Wall Street Journal” offering the scrolls as an “ideal gift to an educational or religious institution.” Professor Harry …show more content…
One of which is the earliest existing copies of books from the Hebrew Bible, known in Hebrew as the Tanach. There were also copies of other early works that are not part of Tanach. These were works related to a specific sect that existed among the Jews at the time of the Second Temple in Jerusalem. A sect is a subgroup of a religious, political or philosophical belief system. Almost all of the scrolls are in Jerusalem on display at the Shrine of the Book. A few are in Jordan, Europe, and the USA. The group of manuscripts which were a thousand years older than any previously found scrolls which made them the oldest known Hebrew texts of the Bibles. Fragments of every book of the Old Testament, The Torah, have been discovered except for the book of Esther. Prophecies by Ezekiel, Jeremiah and Daniel which are not found in the Bible were found among the Scrolls. In the Scrolls are found never before seen psalms attributed to King David and