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...payment difficulties, the Jordan government has so far kept its contents under lock and key, but scholars have been permitted a preliminary peek. On the basis of this examination, they tentatively identified the Cave II scrolls as the Biblical 'Psalms and Leviticus, an apocalyptic description of the New Jerusalem, and a targum (i.e., a translation of a Hebrew text into Aramaic, the colloquial language of Christ's time) of the Book of Job. In all probability this is the targum that disappeared when it was suppressed (for still-obscure theological reasons) by Rabbi Gamaliel I, teacher of Saul...
With the precious fragments in their soiled cigarette boxes, Kando journeys to the "Scrollery"-the Palestine Archaeological Museum in the Jordanian Old City of Jerusalem. There he usually receives the fees for his Bedouin clients (according to the size and condition of the bits of manuscript). And there an international-and inter-credal-task force of scholars takes over, trying to fit the fragments together in a vast, incredibly difficult jigsaw puzzle...
Curreatly, the scholars at Jerusalem are preoccupied with the worldly question of how and whom to pay for more fragments. While the largest single gift of money came from the Jordanian government under the old informal system much of the money for the Bedouin suppliers came from foreign foundations and universities that expected to keep the fragments after the scholars were done with their first studies. Now Jordan's nationalist government wants to abolish this system, keep all the manuscripts in the country but still get the money, either for the Bedouins or for itself. While negotiations are going...
...they were Essenes, an ascetic Jewish sect hitherto known chiefly from the accounts of Josephus and Philo. Much information about the Dead Sea covenanters is contained in the original scrolls (now in the Hebrew University just across the bristling boundary from the Jordanian Scrollers in the Israeli half of Jerusalem). Those first seven scrolls included, in addition to two versions of the book of Isaiah and a collection of apocryphal stories based on Genesis, four documents relating to the Dead Sea sect itself: 1) the Rule of the Community (also known as the Manual of Discipline); 2) a Commentary...
...Egypt and Syria, later Rome. In the wake of Alexander the Great, the world outside Israel was dominated by Greek ways and Greek ideas, and many Jews were abandoning the ancient paths of their fathers for the new Hellenic mode. According to a widely held theory, the Essenes left Jerusalem in protest against such corruption of the ancient Jewish faith, and because of some unidentified act of persecution, withdrew into the desert to await...