Bedouin tribesmen may have uncovered another cache of ancient scrolls like those found in the Dead Sea area some years ago, Dr. Franz M. Cross, associate professor of the Old Testament at Harvard University Divinity School, declared in an interview here.
Prof. Cross said he had received word that such manuscripts had been found by the wandering tribesmen in the Qumran area of Jordan near the site of the first finds.
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