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By Loni Bowden-Horn
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Uneasiness settled over Juma as he noticed several of his goats had scampered too high up on the cliffs. As he heard the tinkering of their bells start to grow faint, Juma decided to scale the face of the cliff and bring the goats back down himself.
Bending down to investigate two small openings in one of the thousands of caves that peppered the fallow cliffs on the northwest corner of the Dead Sea, Juma decided to toss a rock inside one of the crevices.
His eyes widened as a crackling noise reverberated from the cavern. Juma surmised that no one would take the risk of climbing such a steep precipice unless a precious treasure had been buried at that spot.
“Khalid and Mohammed,” shouted Juma to his cousins, “Get up here!”
As his cousins listened with bated breath, Juma began to spin a tale of mystery and intrigue regarding his find.
Dusk began to cast a shadow over the land and the goats had yet to be gathered, so it was decided the search would begin tomorrow.
Eager to get an early start, Mohammed made his way to the cave. Broken pottery and shards of glass littered the entrance to the cave.
Slender jars stood perched against the wall, some with half-dome covers. Mohammed’s face was crestfallen as his search yielded no gold, but a few cloth sacks tinged with a greenish hue.
Mohammed heaved a sigh as he went to tell his cousins the bad news.
The cousins agreed to hang the bags from a Bedouin tent pole until they decided what to do with the contents.
After about four years, the Bedouin goat herders decided to haggle with two of the local Arabian antiquity dealers that resided in Bethlehem.
The seven original scrolls were bandied around the world until February of 1955. The Jewish Prime Minister announced these scrolls would be housed at a special museum at the Hebrew University named, “The Shrine of the Book.”
The parchment and papyrus writings are more commonly known as “The Dead Sea Scrolls.” The treasure unearthed by the Bedouin cousins is believed to be dated between 200 BC and 200 AD.
These writings were found to be a thousand years older than the first known Hebrew manuscripts of the Bible.
God probably got a kick out a kid (goat) unearthing such a treasure.
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Sources:
www.ChristianAnswers.Net - "What is the importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls?
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