{"product_id":"the-dead-sea-scrolls-a-personal-account","title":"The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Personal Account","description":"The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Personal Account by John C. Trever. John C. Trever happened to by studying the plants and animals of the Bible at the American School of Oriental Research in the turbulent Jerusalem of early 1948. The Director of the School was on a 2 week vacation in Baghdad  leaving Professor Trever as Acting Director. It was during that period of time that a phone call came from Father Butrus Sowmy  librarian of the Syrian Orthodox Monastery of St. Marks in Jerusalem. Preparing a catalog of the monasterys rare book collection he had happened across some manuscripts  he said  written in an ancient Hebrew hand. Could anyone at the School help him identify these? So came the first opportunity for the world at large to learn of the greatest discovery of our time - the Dead Sea Scrolls  which had been found  in fact  a year earlier by Bedouin shepherds around Khirbet Qumran  near the Dead Sea. In this revised version of his earlier work  The Untold Story of Aumran  Dr. Trever relates the story of the frantic scholarly explorations carried on against the equally harried backdrop of war-torn pre-partition Palestine. It is an absorbing story of intrigue and undercover negotiations  personal risk and personal frustration  and tireless pursuit of the evidence.","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44835181264949,"sku":"ByrdShop_0802816959","price":60.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_0802816959.jpg?v=1764930113","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-dead-sea-scrolls-a-personal-account","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}