Word: zadok
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...were the real authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls? Elior theorizes that the Essenes were really the renegade sons of Zadok, a priestly caste banished from the Temple of Jerusalem by intriguing Greek rulers in 2nd century B.C. When they left, they took the source of their wisdom - their scrolls - with them. "In Qumran, the remnants of a huge library were found," Elior says, with some of the early Hebrew texts dating back to the 2nd century B.C. Until the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the earliest known version of the Old Testament dated back to the 9th century...
...possessions - clothing, footwear, jewelry, watches, eyeglasses, together with scars, moles, birthmarks, tattoos and identity papers the person may have been carrying. But for all the potential evidence available, Israeli experts expect that identifying the London victims will be very difficult. "Everything will be new to them," says Azi Zadok, head of the Israeli police's Forensic Science Division. "An exploded bus can be full of melted and burned bodies in large numbers with body parts scattered everywhere ... The bodies can be completely dismembered, with many parts scattered over hundreds of meters." Even without such gruesome details, for those still missing...