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  • Dead Sea Scrolls’ Rare Account of Noah Exhibited for First Time

    03/24/2018 5:13:55 PM PDT · by marshmallow · 30 replies
    Aleteia ^ | 3/22/18 | Zelda Caldwell
    The fragment of the ancient Jewish text is from the Genesis Apocryphon.Seventy years after its discovery in the Judean Desert, a fragment of the Dead Sea Scrolls is going on display for the first time at Jerusalem’s Israel Museum. The Genesis Apocryphon was the first of seven Dead Sea Scrolls making up a collection of Jewish texts dating back to the 1st century B.C. that were found in caves on the West Bank in the 1940s and 1950s. It is the only existing copy of an ancient text that elaborates on the stories of the first book of the Bible....