A Yale University expert on Oriental research reported today that another Dead Sea Scroll, dating to the First Century C.E. had successfully been unrolled in the Palestine Archeological Museum in old Jerusalem.
Dr. Frank E. Brown, Thatcher Professor of Latin and secretary of the American School of Oriental Research, said the newly unrolled scroll contained Biblical Psalms and other compositions in Hebrew. One Psalm, the 151st, until now had been found only in the Greek version of the Bible. It is not part of the Hebrew Scriptures, which contain 150 Psalms. The scroll was believed to have been a book of Psalms used by the Essene sect in a settlement at Quamran.
The Colgate-Rochester Divinity School, will publish the scroll’s contents for the American School which bought publication rights from the Jordan Government with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs, Kenneth Bechtel of San Francisco, There are seven unknown compositions interspersed among the Psalms.
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