The Isaiah Scroll, the most complete and important of the Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in Qumran, is currently on display at the Israel Museum for the first time since 1968.This is a great story that is worth retelling. This article is substantially accurate, although Kando was a Syrian Orthodox Christian, not a Bedouin. That's not an insignficant point, since it explains why he consulted with the Syriac Orthodox Church.Although the distance from Qumran to Jerusalem is a mere 23 kilometers (14 miles), the manuscript has traveled thousands of miles on an epic journey since its discovery in 1947.
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