What they found in the caves: let's go to the Scrolls. (Dead Sea Scrolls)

From: Commonweal | Date: December 18, 1992| Author: Fitzmyer, Joseph A. | Copyright information

As a biblical scholar, I can testify that the Dead Sea Scrolls are of the utmost importance to our understanding of the origins of Christianity. But even I was somewhat taken back by the significance attached to the Scrolls in a recent supermarket tabloid: "A nuclear disaster will leave millions dead or homeless and America will find itself going to war in 1992, according to predictions gleaned from the mysterious Dead Sea Scrolls .... the scrolls include eye-popping predictions fo...

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