The Mystery of the Copper Scroll of Qumran

✍ Scribed by Feather, Robert

• Book ID: 110488655
• Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 8 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781591430148

✦ Synopsis

Introduces a radical new perspective on the historical foundations of monotheism, based on the enigma of the Copper Scroll of the Essenes.
• Confirms the link between ancient Judaism and the pharoah Akhenaten.
• Decodes the system of measurements encrypted on the Copper Scroll that has confounded scholars for over 50 years, leading to the identification of fabulous lost treasures.
• Points to a radical new understanding of the origins of monotheism.
The famous Dead Sea Scrolls comprise the oldest collection of Biblical documents ever discovered. Of the Dead Sea Scrolls, none has baffled experts more than the 2,000-year-old Copper Scroll, discovered in 1952 by a team of Bedouin led by Henri de Contenson of the Ecole Biblique in East Jerusalem. Appearing to be a list of buried treasure engraved on copper pieces, the Copper Scroll is considered to be the work of a secretive Jewish sect of devout Essenes, who lived by the Dead Sea around the time of...