The Dead Sea Scrolls are the most prominent historical record of Jewish life in the Second Temple period, from roughly 500 BCE to 70 CE. The first scrolls were found in 1947 by a young Bedouin shepherd. Of the 15 scrolls, only one was not written on parchment. The Copper Scroll, as it’s known, was written on a thin, paperlike substance that is a mix of copper and tin. […]