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Show 7 - V. - - - THE DESERET HEWS WedisesioyNovember 2, 1949 Sett Lak City, utek 11 , Closest link. to Holy Writ Experts Hail biscover -- FOE THE MST TEMZ since Thee discovery In 1941 in this Ho ly Land, three of the ancient Ilebrew acrolls found by sheer eat accident and representing One- - of the most trriportantsbr,- - - gi4r- - ------ - After months of negotiation. Library of 7Congresir hairthese three acrolls-p- art of the lir000 found tit a desert cave-- on loin and they are to be horns in Washington for a few short weeksThe whole story is one of the most amazing in the long annals of man's efforts to get eiose to the .oureeof Bible - ---authorship - -- These scrolls incliide. among others ot ,the sacred Hebrew the remVete text of the Book of Isaiah in the original.ht7 are at lead 2000 years old, which than 1000 year; older. ' - , : Hebrew-Americtu- are be-- es- experta Everything about them has found to check-i- -- - , r- - Ilse as set forth in this most, anclomtof texts, differs only in the slightest details from tho text as It In found In tho Old Testament - - - day; - 11,11 vims.,,40f . .......-0-- ijeltr.frir ff.'0,....r, 1,14,1f.g:.; 44'''''Sl'f&r. firof wren litogfeairre 0.1- - rfadolp.:..0 r - .f1104,010.....V.reft, ferences, ft la believed, are , Ittomm.exe.grogeripPowlx A. re ,r f lookrty,.......40....-"Arowl.r- vr wo2 10ottfu vor s"1. Sq., In 1.01'; ...Ira" .r10,(ette vow Os- a .1p. ,.., - iovv!, ;tr; 4 ar.Te "0". Pt 46.C.. ; Oat 4'r - ,74I irft- AO. ., tc..,t..( r , r'aid:oo, NOtimmiimoomponimmeNisol,0 . got in touch with the Hebrew, University nit Mount Scrius, whkh eventually acquired his divided the find in two equal shares. Disappcdnted, perhaps, at not finding the golden treasure they 4 i:- THE RALF, ''exPietok-theteiilltrered--ahe- bards made off with the scrolls dealers of antiquities , in Bethlehem. After mud) shipping around, one of the find era sold his four manuseriPts to the Syrian Monastery. of' St. Mark in Jerusalem. The other -- to- - MORE VALUABLE it appears, liras bought by the Monastery, and It la through its superior the Archbishop and Metropolitan of .1e;- rusalem and Grace, the Reverend Athanasius :Yesbue Samuel, that the three Trans--Torda- n, -- '1 , , , , , 4 t . - , ,- - - , - - , N - , - , --- 2 ANCIENT HEIRENV MANUSCRIPTS of Congress - "cgs . - -- ' - - . Four..0 . -- '. , . lhi library ':,- :' , , - at hefty, It can be unrolled and will therefore not be In the eshibit. But the most valuable of this group, and in fact, of all the new. scrolls, Is the virtually complete scroll if Isaiah, In a very early Hebrew script characteristic of the second century B. C scroll Is 23 Zeit, Ion& and is in a state of almost per- feet preservation. -TheMIwo other , manuscripts which-Whoplaced on exhibltio include about half of a commentary on the first two chapters of Habakkuk, attributed to the -first century B.C., and a kind of compendium of the doctrines and practices of a still imidentiBed Jewish sect -from period (163$o37B.j. A 'Tyr SCHOLARS A , 4 4- , - manuscripts have been loaned to the Library of Congress. Unfortunately, the fourth manuscript of the Monastery I t Anteried and7Zurope doubted Oa 1Whentiritlic01 these scrolls, or have claimed that the? were-ranch later ptigin than supposed. Fortune- stein the cave in which the Bedouin found the scrolls Was carefully excavated a few months ago by two of the lead- kg authorities on the archae-ology of Palestine, G. lanbescurator icttef -- Of - ,....A.ovaisoleadkdmit.afe ON DISPLAY FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A)AERICA -Vioshklgtors,, D. C. ettracts wide attention of students of scripture and other Interested persons. (Associated Press Photo) . 4 DR. 'JOHN C. TREVOR AND SYRIAN METROPOLITAN SAMUEL EXAMINE SCROELS Top photo shows complete Isaiah scroll written on leather. The 'Sectarian Document' may be seen to the right in lower, photo; 1Babakkuk Commentary' at extreme right and Aramaic scroll, front (Associated Press Photo) - 1 .1 ,417' 0 lt,opriist (3 , . OfroZIPRUICrt.,. 4 ... lw rfvfrwrir,f kV, .. WIII, re4of. , filoapla f,,,ff ...'4...'..:"MVI is . ',.', fit f,ffff,ff er"'"71."Ir4r.'"74'. to3;19.Tatl t In-'b- andthemufldlf -- , 7.4, ...far .., ,,,,fegor4,0,00,4,ftft , A goat, dissatisfied with the parched vegetation of late summer, set out in eearch of greener pastures and led his leisurely Bedouin shepherd and the shepherds companion to a small circular opening in a rock-fa- ce and down into a cave. In the dim light orthe 'cavern's Interior the goatherd saw large earthen jaza,stancling -- on the floor. The jars contained eight leMher scrolls covered with an ancient script. With the democratic instinct of true eons et the desert, the Bedouin alah Bcsyk-d-Lr- - that nd Z.r story begins with a herd of goals grazing In the foothills of - the, northwest shores of the Dead Bea, south of Tericho, in the neighborhood of Ain yeshkhat itist ,twO, years ago. This was in Ihe chasing days ot the British administra7 lion; the area now Is claimed by the Warthimits ruler at the Library. of Experts Omere-a--blii-o-Ou- 3 WO.. 01010.,10 Ahr, - 1.0. alriG of Hebrew orthography, the material of Which two scrolls are mode, ' the earthen jars In which they were found even the ink elf, yritticts tosimilarto that used by the rurelent Greeks-The- y are, In fact, the authentic forbears In form as well as -text of the Scrolls of the Lass natal In synagogues to this dayTHE SCROLLS are made of leather.-- - with- - the writing on the Inner aide. Tide Is not the eetiventional parchment, both 'Ades of whkb can be used foe trriting , .'IW.14.vp k, ,....4.44,0. f ....' ".....'..'''-,- 4! X DRAMATIC-AU- time-a- form place-t- he 1 1,4.,,,,filetsfif Nwl...11p,o, ,f,. ' im..,17-.rrs4-4,r-- 4..,f' ,1;rlr, i......E,Pre.r.,,F ilV,10.000:ove.00mp vff.swt. , . f .:,' ' - t '''' te.A.V...., ,..m1..0,04ft 40.43 AVT---'. si Beved that there is no probethat-weshall emu- - findnumusczipteofthe. Hebrew texts gobte back to a period before the formation of the texts with'which we are noir teen carefully analyzed and nnd , ill , 1".. ',fir -- schelars-who-for-decad- to the authenticity of the scrolls and their agreed as 00. WO .0,10 . t .:It the-chest- rIkri, and fo...0.1, tee A , : ,, corn-posit- ion Than anyprevlouslyknown 3ible numuscriPts In the 5hg 0.- V.rf -: estimable vaiue,as evettthe, Utest of the new doctunents believed to antedate the of the earliest book el the New Testament by a century or more; . Until fintiUg these scrolls, which reads like a page from the dory of a thousand-ma-Ono' eights. only slew Jravrients of the Bade in the original Hebrew dating from before the nbith century A. D. were known. 'The discovery is the more remaskable as ft startled - and amazed Bible ore - nal A - ,.., r,',...,.0. -- :ytflgsqpyof , duo solely to copyist? errors itainewherialsiog the line: These ancient relics of Jude - Christ:lofty tivilization are exceedingly Interesting for dio BIM they the 'text at the Old - Teetament. the ,PW14.01. 1 WI', : 'f frff ritiboilewTestat'L meet, and for their contribution to knowledge of Jewish Ifterabzre sMI. Meer in the Period: betweentho Old and lirew'restamenteTo the'Chrliztian scholar they are of bc- can be seen by the sriade, now Ipublic. : r1110,,Vi mr.o0.-W- 1 id.. tHacoverics-eve- r- Sy : --- j rt."7.4,5fr:510.,...rW f.1.11.740...., 1: Straying Goat Leads to Important Biblica in Herbert Hollander ncient Icrolts 70 - i ' Father a- -.r of the Jordan, and de Vault, diree-- R41.,.12nd famous Trench (Continued.. rote sixieea) - CHURCH NEWS EVENTS, WEEK OF:NOVEMBER 6,-19- 49 - |