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The Dead Sea A Personal Account by John C. Trever. John C. Trever happened to by studying the plants and animals of the Bible at the American School of Oriental Research in the turbulent Jerusalem of early 1948. The Director of the School was on a 2 week vacation in Baghdad, leaving Professor Trever as Acting Director. It was during that period of time that a phone call came from Father Butrus Sowmy, librarian of the Syrian Orthodox Monastery of St. Mark's in Jerusalem. Preparing a catalog of the monastery's rare book collection he had happened across some manuscripts, he said, written in an ancient Hebrew hand. Could anyone at the School help him identify these? So came the first opportunity for the world at large to learn of the greatest discovery of our time - the Dead Sea Scrolls, which had been found, in fact, a year earlier by Bedouin shepherds around Khirbet Qumran, near the Dead Sea. In this revised version of his earlier work, The Untold Story of Aumran, Dr. Trever relates the story of the frantic scholarly explorations carried on against the equally harried backdrop of war-torn pre-partition Palestine. It is an absorbing story of intrigue and undercover negotiations, pers

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Author

John C. Trever

Publisher

William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

Published

1977

Language

EN

ISBN

9780802816955

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Religion, Judaism

Rating

5 / 5 (3 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14