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THE discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls was perhaps the most exciting archeological story of this century. Some of the most important scrolls, including the Book of Isaiah, Habakuk commentary, Ordinance of the Community, the War scroll, and Genesis Apocryphon, were acquired by Israel soon after they were discovered in the caves of Kumran near the Dead Sea in 1947. They and the Temple scroll, which was acquired later, were quickly and expertly published, and are proudly displayed in Jerusalem in a structure specially built for them at the Israel Museum.
Other scrolls were acquired by the Jordanian government, which set up a committee of Christian scholars to decipher and publish the material, most of which was in fragments. The committee, whose members were not...