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To: 1010RD

Reused? What if it was the intent of the deceased to be wrapped in the Gospel?

Then he would have had the scroll be buried with him intact, instead of a fragment used in a paper mache mask.

14 posted on 01/20/2015 5:17:16 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)

To: PapaBear3625

Given the expense of paper, a fragment might be all he or his family could afford.

16 posted on 01/20/2015 5:19:41 AM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)

To: PapaBear3625; teppe; Normandy

Then he would have had the scroll be buried with him intact, instead of a fragment used in a paper mache mask.

As with all fragments; only a True man of GOD can fill in the blanks...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Abraham

24 posted on 01/20/2015 6:27:12 AM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

To: PapaBear3625

And he probably would not have opted for mummification.

27 posted on 01/20/2015 8:19:46 AM PST by Bigg Red (Congress, do your duty and repo his pen and his phone.)

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