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Dead Sea Scrolls: Ancient texts
Ancient Texts pages that draw on Dead Sea Scrolls, each with the sources shown. Start with Book of Giants, Genesis Apocryphon, Lamech and Bitenosh.
Texts · Dead Sea Scrolls; ManichaeismBook of GiantsA lost book told from the giants' point of view turned up in two places thousands of miles apart: a Dead Sea cave and the ruins of a Silk Road oasis. It was once read in Aramaic, then by followers of the prophet Mani, then lost for over a thousand years. How did a story about giants cross a continent?Texts · Dead Sea ScrollsGenesis ApocryphonIts owner, a Syrian Orthodox archbishop, advertised this scroll for sale in the Wall Street Journal in 1954. It was so brittle it was called a scroll that could not be opened. Once unrolled, it retold Genesis in first person, including Lamech's fear that his son was a Watcher's child. What else was hiding inside?People · Dead Sea Scrolls; Enoch literatureLamech and BitenoshA Dead Sea Scroll describes a newborn who lights up the whole house like the sun, with hair white as wool. His terrified father suspects the child was fathered by a Watcher, and his wife swears an oath that he is wrong. It is one of the few female voices in this literature. Whose child was Noah?
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