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Yadin believes that the Temple Scroll was considered part of the Bible by Qumran. The parchment reinforces the scholarly conviction that the Qumran community consisted of ascetic, apocalyptically minded Jews who withdrew from the turmoil of Jerusalem to await the end of the world, and whose zeal to purify their faith in some sense foreshadowed that of Jesus and the early Christians...
Since the first discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947, the faded parchments of Qumran have provided extraordinary insights into the nature of Judaism at the time when Christianity was born. Now, Israeli Archaeologist Yigael Yadin has announced the discovery of a new scroll. Not only is it the longest so far discovered, but it may well prove to be the most important. Unlike the other parchments, which are either copies of Biblical texts or accounts of the history and practices of the Qumran community, the new scroll is a prophetic message, claiming to speak for God himself, that...
...Less than one-tenth of a millimeter thick, the parchment is in extremely fragile condition; insects had begun to gnaw at its fringes, and the outer portion, said Yadin, looked like "melted chocolate." Unrolled, the scroll measures 28 ft. 3 in. in length, more than four feet longer than Qumran's complete scroll of Isaiah...
...Second Temple period. "From the external evidence," he says, "it is apparent that the author definitely wanted his scroll to be taken as the law of God." Unlike all other apocryphal writings of the time, the new scroll is written as though the Creator himself is speaking. In other Qumran texts, the word God is written in a distinctive script, a reminder that the sacred name is too holy to pronounce; in the new scroll, the letters for Yahweh are written in the style of the rest of the text...
...fall plantings. Other experts are studying irrigation schemes for the Jordan valley. The government's Department of Antiquities will soon send teams of archaeologists fanning out through the new territories. On the West Bank, the Israel Parks Authority has taken over three existing archaeological sites, including Qumran where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found. A group of planners is at work on a model village where 10,000 Arab refugees from Gaza might be resettled in a pilot project...