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What did Bedouin shepherd Muhammed edh-Dhib throw into the cliffside cave above the Dead Sea in spring 1947?
He threw a stone looking for a lost goat and heard pottery break. The cave contained seven 2,000-year-old leather scrolls — the start of the Dead Sea Scrolls discovery.
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The Bedouin Shepherd Who Threw a Stone Into a Cave Above the Dead Sea in Spring 1947 and Heard Pottery Break A young Bedouin shepherd named Muhammed edh-Dhib threw a stone into a cliffside cave above the western shore of the Dead Sea in spring 1947 looking for a lost goat. He heard pottery break. The cave contained seven 2,000-year-old leather scrolls. The discovery of approximately 25,000 fragments from 11 caves over the next decade fundamentally changed the modern reconstruction of Second Temple Judaism and early Christianity.
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