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Subject: Re: Who discovered the Dead Sea Scrolls?
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Dear JayBee,
The preservation of the dead sea scrolls is a function of the dry
desert environment and the material of the scrolls (cured animal
hide?). This is not the case with tamil palm leaf manuscripts in the
Indian climate. Of course, the discovery of palm leaf manuscripts is
all the more remarkable given this context.

I seem to recall that there are stories of treasure hoards/buried
remnants at several places in TN especially gangai konda cholapuram.
Perhaps there may be surviving manuscripts, copper plates in these as
well - do you know anything about this or about manuscripts/plates
from Malaysia/Thailand/Singapore/Jawa/...?

thanks & regards,
Kishore

--- In agathiyar@y..., jaybee wrote:
>
> Dear Friends,
>
> Here is an interesting item - for your perusal.
>
> Regards
>
> JayBee
>
> ------------------Forwarded-----------
>
> Who Discovered the Dead Sea Scrolls
>
> If goats had not strayed up a Jordanian cliff in 1947,
> the Dead Sea Scrolls might still be hidden in Middle Eastern
> caves, and scholars might know far less about Jewish and early
> Christian history.
> The young man who went after the goats--one
> of three cousins tending the flock--tossed a stone into a small
> cave opening and heard it break pottery. When the cousins
> explored the cave, they found jars filled with ancient scrolls
> and document fragments. It was not the treasure they'd hoped
> for (they sold three of the larger scrolls for five British
pounds),
> but the Dead Sea Scrolls have been a treasure trove for
> historians and theologians.
>
> Between 1947 and 1956, nearly 800 manuscripts
> turned up in 11 caves near Qumran (an area at the northern
> end of the Dead Sea, which was Jordanian and is now in the
> Israeli Occupied Territories). Most of the scrolls are written
> in Hebrew, but some are in Aramaic or Greek--the Bible's
> original languages. Many of the documents are on parchment
> (animal skins); some are on papyrus (made from an African grass).
>
> The scrolls include biblical and non-biblical texts,
> probably written sometime between the 3rd century BC and
> AD 68.
> The biblical texts include fragments of every
> Old Testament chapter except the Book of Esther--as well
> as psalms and prophecies that don't appear in the modern
> Bible. The non-biblical texts address rules, rituals and other
> aspects of life in the community that produced the scrolls.
> Among other things, the Jews in that community were
> expecting the arrival of a Messiah, and scholars believe
> their views could have contributed to the emergence of
> Christianity.
> In that way, the accidental discovery of three goat
> herders has transformed thinking about two important religions.
>
> ========================================