A CONFERENCE FOR CANADIAN DEAD SEA SCROLLS SCHOLARS has just taken place in Vancouver:

Dead Sea Scrolls scholars meet for first time at international conference

VANCOUVER - They're awe-inspiring ancient manuscripts shrouded in mystery for both historians and religious scholars wanting a glimpse inside an old Jewish community's customs and the origins of the Hebrew Bible, or the Christian Old Testament.

For the first time this week, Canadian scholars who study the Dead Sea Scrolls have met at an international conference to mark the 60th anniversary since the treasured manuscripts were discovered near Jerusalem.

Peter Flint, co-director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Institute at Trinity Western University in Langley, B.C., said Friday that 12 Canadian experts research the scrolls, which were found in a cave by a goat herder near the shores of the Dead Sea in 1947.

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