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Book of Nehemiah Found Among the Scrolls

Anyone familiar with the Dead Sea Scrolls can tell you that portions of nearly every book in the Hebrew Bible are represented in these ancient texts discovered in caves near the Dead Sea.

The only exceptions were the Book of Esther and the Book of Nehemiah;* scholars assumed the latter had been written on the same scroll as the Book of Ezra (as was common) but simply hadnâ€™t survivedâ€”until now. In a recent blog post,** Norwegian scroll scholar Torleif Elgvin of Evangelical Lutheran University College in Oslo, Norway, announced that he and colleague Esther Eshel of Bar-Ilan University will be publishing a collection of more than two dozen previously unknown scroll fragments, including the first known fragment of Nehemiah. ...

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5/22/12 11:44 PM

Original James

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Is he a Jesuit too?

5/19/12 2:37 PM

Jim Lincoln

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I see there is an ebook to explain the meaning and importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls, If there eBook doesn't agree with what Dr. Geisler said about The Dead Sea Scrolls, it won't be worth reading.

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