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Article: Finding a missing link.(lost Dead Sea Scroll)(Brief Article)
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- U.S. News & World Report
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- October 11, 1999
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A "lost" Dead Sea Scroll, said to date from the time of Christ and to shed dramatic new light on the origins of Christianity and Jewish mysticism, reportedly has surfaced at a monastery in Germany, where it had been kept hidden for decades. Scholars say the mysterious text, which was partially revealed in Israel last week, is either an elaborate millennial hoax or the most important archaeological discovery of the century.
Rumors of missing manuscripts have abounded in the five decades since the Dead Sea Scrolls were first discovered. The colorful saga of this scroll's existence appears in the October 11 issue of The Jerusalem Report, a biweekly magazine ...