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Article: Biblical treasure hunt Archeologists begin search of newly found caves near site of Dead Sea Scrolls
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 18, 1995
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QUMRAN, West Bank -- The saga of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the most
direct, handwritten link we have to the time and spirit of Jesus and
a source of perpetual controversy, seems about to gain a new chapter.
Starting today, some 30 volunteers will make a daily 15-mile ride
southeast from Jerusalem to dig out by hand what appear to be four
collapsed caves near the sites where 800 scrolls were unearthed from
1947 to 1956, in what many consider the greatest manuscript discovery
of modern times.
This will be hardly the first effort to follow up on those
discoveries in the monumental limestone cliffs and chalk-and-clay
caverns that loom over the putrid, salty tablelands of the Dead Sea.
Hundreds of ...