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He shoved the torn fragments into his robe and took off on his horse, lastly delivering the shredded squeeze to Clermont-Ganneau. To faithfully reconstruct the textual content of Enoch, he wanted digital photographs of the scrolls—images that had been crisper and extra detailed than the printed copies inside the books he was relying on. That was how, in 2004, he found himself traipsing round Paris, trying to find a specialised microfiche scanner to addContent photographs to his laptop computer. The Dead Sea Scrolls, first uncovered by a trio of Bedouin wandering the Judean Desert in 1947, provide an interesting glimpse into what Scripture appeared like during a transformative period of non secular ferment in historic Israel. The scrolls embrace the oldest copies ever found of the Hebrew Bible, “apocryphal” texts that have been by no means canonized, and guidelines and tips for daily living written by the community of people …