... The first discovery of the scrolls was made in the spring of 1947 when young Bedouin shepherds, searching for a lost goat in the cliffs along the Dead Sea in Judean Desert, went into a cave that had never been visited before by anyone and found jars filled with ancient scrolls. These jars discovered by the Bedouin had seven scrolls, which they sold ... with himself, as they were useless for him so he sold three of them to Eleazar L. Sukenik of Hebrew University, and four to Metropolitan Mar Athanasius Yeshue Samuel of the Syrian Orthodox monastery of St. Mark. The four with Mar Athanasi...

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