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Article: Scholar's road to Dead Sea Scrolls runs through Glendora, Yucaipa
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- Whittier Daily News
- Article date:
- October 8, 2009
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Robert Duke's road to Israel and the Dead Sea Scrolls winds
through Yucaipa.
Duke, who grew up in Yucaipa, was attending a blood drive at a
Yucaipa church. He had studied in Israel and was teaching at Yucaipa
Christian School.
At the blood drive, he ended up next to John Malone, a Redlands
resident and member of the Yucaipa Rotary Club. The two men struck
up a conversation.
"He asked if I would like to go back to school, and I said yes,
and he told me about Rotary's Ambassadorial Scholarship," Duke said.
Rotary paid for Duke to study in Jerusalem for a year, where he
continued to fall in love with biblical history - the Dead Sea
Scrolls, in particular.
Now, Duke has helped bring the scrolls ...