Eibert Tigchelaar

American evangelical collectors buy up Dead Sea Scroll fragments

August 15, 2013Global Politics

A few fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls have made their ways into the hands of American evangelical Christians — thanks to a man who was one of the first people to come into contact with the scrolls after Bedouin Arabs first found them in the late 1940s.

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