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After two days of study, officials at Fogg Museum have decided to attempt to unroll a 2,000-year-old leather scroll believed to contain the oldest Old Testament text in existence...
...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...
Officials of the museum accepted the scroll yesterday from its owner, Mar Athanasius Y. Samuel, Metropolitan of Jerusalem and Hashemite Jordan. The conservation department will now spend several days making a preliminary examination...
...scroll, which was in such a dried and brittle condition that experts were of the opinion that it could be opened only after chemical treatment, was brought to the Fogg Museum at the suggestion of Professor Carl H. Kracling, President of the American Schools of Oriental Research at Yale University...
Rutherford J. Gettens, Director of Technical Research in the museum, will decide after careful tests if the scroll can be opened. If the museum does decide to open it, it is expected that at least six months will be required to complete the project...