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New Dead Sea Scrolls Reported Discovered; All Found in Jordan Caves

July 15, 1957
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The discovery of new Dead Sea scrolls was announced here this week-end by G. Lankester Harding, former director of antiquities in Jordan, who ten years ago announced the first finds of ancient Biblical scrolls.

Addressing the annual meeting of the Palestine Exploration Fund, Mr. Harding said some “magnificent” fragments of scrolls had been found in caves. Among the manuscripts, some of which had not yet been unrolled when Mr. Harding left Jordan, are part of the Book of Leviticus in an ancient Hebrew script, a translation of the Book of Job in Aramaic and a nearly complete manuscript of the Book of Psalms.

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