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The Aramaic Enoch Scroll is a non-published, complete copy of the Book of Enoch that is rumored to be in the possession of private investors.
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Learn to edit There is no proof of its existence, but according to the former chief editor of the official Dead Sea Scrolls editorial team, John Strugnell (deceased 2007), the scroll is well preserved, and microfilmed. Strugnell said
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According to Strugnell, the scroll was found in the Qumran "Cave 11", in 1956, together with the other, already publicized scrolls and fragments. This cave was found by the same Bedouin, Abu Dahoud, who found
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Download as PDF Apart from this and another scroll from Cave 11 that he claimed to have seen, Strugnell had heard Gerald Lankester Harding, the director of Jordan's Department of Antiquities (1936–1956), speak of at least two, never-published
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scrolls from the same find. These, or some of them, were at that time (the Kuwait crisis) about to be bought by private, probably European collectors or bankers. The reason for buying them was for investments. Although Strugnell had
Languages arrangements with serious buyers who would publicize the scrolls, he was not able to convince the owners to sell.[1][3]
Add links Abu Dahoud has confirmed that he and ten other men found the cave, and sold the scrolls to many different people.[2]

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The importance of a complete Aramaic manuscript of the Book of Enoch could be immense. Michael Wise, a DSS scholar, writes: "No trace of the Parables of Enoch has been discovered at Qumran, and it is widely considered today
to be a composition of the later first century C.E. If a pre-Christian copy of the Parables were ever discovered, it would create a sensation"[4] Former Dead Sea Scrolls
editor John Strugnell working in
The Parables is a part of the Ethiopic translation of the Book of Enoch. It is disputed how old it is, and if it was originally a part of Enoch. Currently most scholars believe it to be pre-Christian.[5] the "Scrollery"

See also [ edit ]

Book of Enoch
Reception of Enoch in antiquity
Dead Sea Scrolls

References [ edit ]

1. ^ a b "An Interview with John Strugnell" . The BAS Library. 2015-08-24. Retrieved 2020-09-27.
2. ^ a b "Secrets of the Dead Sea Scrolls" . Archived from the original on 2010-05-05. Retrieved 2010-02-17.
3. ^ Avi Katzman, Understanding the Dead Sea Scrolls, p. 262.
4. ^ Michael Wise, A New Translation - The Dead Sea Scrolls, p. 279
5. ^ James H. Charlesworth, The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and the New Testament, ISBN 0-521-30190-4 (1985), p. 89

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