Does the Angel Scroll Reveal that Jesus was Member of the Dead Sea Sect?
A November 7, 1999 article in the Sunday-Times (London – MIDDLE EAST section) by Matthew Kalman (Jerusalem) continues to increase the speculation and mystery surrounding the so-called “Angel Scroll.” The Angel Scroll is said to belong to the famous Dead Sea Scrolls family. The most recent tidbit thrown to the media reveals that the scroll names Jesus as sect member. Since their discovery almost half a century ago, the Dead Sea scrolls have fascinated biblical scholars. The mystery surrounding them has deepened, however, with claims that a hitherto unknown scroll, which threatens to challenge the originality of Christian theology, was spirited out of the Holy Land and ended up in the hands of Benedictine monks, who tried to suppress its contents. According to a bizarre tale that has unfolded over the past few weeks in Israel, the so-called Angel scroll was found by a Bedouin tribesman in Jordan in the late 1960s on the eastern shore opposite the Qumran caves, where the Dead Sea scrolls
