RL ST 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Indulgence, Christian Mysticism, Scholasticism
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The dead sea is not too far from jerusalem (modern day israel). He noticed that some of his sheep were missing. Out by the dead sea, there are a lot of hills that have caves in them. The young boy starts looking inside the caves looking for his lost sheep. While he was in there, he came across containers (pottery). Now, of course he did not know what he had found. Eventually, these scrolls got into the hands of religious scholars. What he had stumbled upon became known as . The: dead sea scrolls, this is one of the most important archaeological findings of the 20th century. There were about 800 scrolls found in total. 1 quarter were copies of the books found in the. These are the earliest copies of the books we have of the hebrew bible. The other 3 quarters of the scrolls contained the writing of the jewish (listen to.
