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Scholars identified among the manuscripts a full text of Isaiah, a commentary on the Book of Habakkuk, a collection of hymns, a scroll tentatively thought to be the Book of Lamech, a heretofore unknown work called the War of the Children of Light Against the Children of Darkness. The manuscripts apparently dated back to the second or third century B.C. and antedated the oldest existing Hebrew Biblical manuscript (Codex Babylonicus Petropolitanus, A.D. 916) by more than a thousand years...
...scroll is believed to be the lost and legendary Book of Lamech, the story of Noah's father. Some 26 lines from a fragment of the manuscript have led archaeologists and Biblical experts to assume that the priceless scroll contains the story of Noah's youth, of the coming of the Great Flood, of preparations for buildings and setting afloat...
...last document had not withstood the pressures of time and the elements as well as the others. It was sealed, perhaps permanently. But a 26-line fragment led experts to believe that the scroll contained the legendary Book of Lamech...
Biblical scholars believe the scroll is the lost book of Lamech, Noah's father, which may give an account of Noah's early life and his preparations for the flood. The job of unrolling the scroll is expected to take six months...
...scroll, believed by biblical scholars to be the lost Book of Lamech, is one of four discovered in 1947 by a goatherd on the shores of the Dead Sea and brought to the United States by owner Samuel...