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A. The Story of the Finds 1947 is normally given as the year in which the first manuscripts were brought to light by Bedouin of the half-nomad tribe of the Taámireh on the north-west shore of the Dead Sea. This date rests on two facts. The shepherd Muhammad ad-Dib himself gave the year 1947 as the date of his accidental discovery. And it was in 1947 that seven manuscripts appeared in Bethlehem for the first time. Four of these scrolls came into the possession of the Syrian Orthodox Metropolitan Mar Je…