"You're not dead? Sure to find a clue to the Ark of the Covenant? ”

Sun Yuyao packed Wu Tianyuan's luggage, and said helplessly: "This time I went to the Yale University library to find clues?" ”

"Since even the Pope said that I was a messenger sent by God, if I couldn't find the Ark of the Covenant, I would be sorry for his old man's trust, wouldn't I?"

Wu Tianyuan joked that although he found the money pit last time and harvested a lot of ancient gold and silver coins, the most important ark of the covenant was fake, and he really didn't give up. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

After a few days of research, it was discovered that there was a prophecy of the Ark of the Covenant in the Dead Sea Scrolls! Yes, it is a prophecy, which is not even mentioned in the secret archives of the Holy See, so Wu Tianyuan wants to take a look.

The Dead Sea Scrolls are the oldest manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible and contain the Old Testament in addition to the Bible and the Book of Esther, as well as some of the books that are considered to be Apocrypha. This scroll was unearthed in 1947 in Quinlan, near the Dead Sea, hence the name Dead Sea Scroll. The scrolls are mainly parchment and partly papyrus.

A young shepherd's sheep entered a cave near the Dead Sea, and in order to get the sheep out, the shepherd boy threw stones into the cave and broke the clay pot in the cave, thus discovering these ancient scrolls.

It was not until February 1948 that Bishop Samuel purchased the ancient scrolls from the caves of the Dead Sea sent to the American Institute of Oriental Studies and Yale University, where they were inspected by the director of the Institute of Near Eastern Languages. Over the next decade, clay pots containing scrolls were excavated in 11 caves, and about 40,000 scrolls or fragments were recovered.

The contents of the Dead Sea Scrolls are mainly divided into three main categories, and the nearly 100 volumes are the Old Testament scriptures. Also included are many Bible commentaries, Bible commentaries, exegesis, apocryphalic and apocryphalic scriptures. Non-biblical documents, such as prophecies about the end of the world, and writings on God's destruction of evil forces and the return of the Messiah.

Wu Tianyuan arrived at Yale University the next day, and finally saw the Dead Sea Scrolls through John's relationship, and learned a lot of inside information after some communication.

"It turns out that the so-called Bible has also been tampered with many times?"

The scroll was only discovered in 1947, and the ancient copy was copied on a sheepskin, about 2,000 years ago. Before that, the world's oldest manuscript of the Old Testament, the Massules, was only a copy of 900 to 1,000 years ago.

But the Torah at the beginning of the Bible was written 3,500 years ago, and after 2,500 years of repeated copying and copying, did it add errors to the Bible? In particular, the nineteenth century was a sensitive period when theological critics arose, along with the doctrine of evolution, which attacked the Bible.

To understand the ancient scrolls, we need to know the history of Bible criticism in Europe and the United States in the past 100 years, since the Renaissance in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Christianity has faced a series of criticisms. The beginning of the Renaissance was closely related to the Crusades. The Pope's main motivation for encouraging the Crusades was to eliminate political opponents and reduce internal conflicts. The Crusades did achieve the goal of eliminating the warlords. Many famous generals never returned.

At that time, many people accused the Bible today of being the most unreliable, the most corrupt, and the least trustworthy because it was so far removed from the original Bible 3,500 years ago. Even unbelieving missionaries and bishops in the church echoed and responded to them.

At this time, the defenders of the Bible sighed and said, "We have not found a manuscript older than this thousand-year-old Hebrew Bible that can be used to prove the correctness of the present Bible." ”

According to historical records, some monks left the sinful city around Jerusalem and hid in the caves of the Dead Sea mountains to learn asceticism and copy the Bible, which gradually became a community and then fled in the caves when there was war.

Bibles copied by the ancient friars before the first century were later found in eleven caves, and the ancient books in the Dead Sea caves, which were acquired by Bishop Samuel, were not sent until February 1948 to the American Institute of Oriental Studies and Yale University, where they were carefully examined by the Institute of Near Eastern Languages. They identified the Hebrew script as a manuscript dating back to 1 or 200 B.C., and it can be seen that the 2,000-year-old manuscript Bible is identical in content to the Bible we use today.

Thus the attackers were silenced, and it was confirmed that the Bible used today is identical to the original Bible and that there is not a single mis-mixing of them, and that the book of Isaiah is the most complete of all the ancient books, with only two minor omissions.

The whole volume is the same as the present book of Isaiah, which was copied on a parchment scroll one foot wide and twenty-four feet long, hidden in a tile bottle, wrapped in sackcloth, and poured with asphalt. It is now kept in the library of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

However, after Wu Tianyuan's exchange with the ancient scrolls, it was found that in fact, the ancient scrolls here have also undergone several revisions, and in the process of being copied by the ascetic leaders at that time, they combined their own perceptions and understandings, but only a few details and did not affect the overall meaning.

In Dead Sea Scrolls 11:19 it is written: Revelation 11:19 And the heavenly temple of God was opened, and in his house appeared His ark of the covenant, followed by lightning, sounds, thunder, earthquakes, and hailstorms.

"This is the ancient scroll's prophecy of the Ark of the Covenant, and I feel like it should be in Ethiopia!"

Wu Tianyuan finally found the clue he needed, in fact, there are countless legends about the Ark of the Covenant spread beyond Jerusalem. In 1936, a news revealed that a French insurance company had received an insurance from a mysterious organization in the Middle East, claiming that the mysteriously missing Ark of the Covenant was hidden in the war-torn Ethiopia, and that it was specially insured for fear of accidental damage during the war.

The story has never been confirmed, but it evokes memories of a 13th-century folklore. It is said that when the Babylonians invaded and plundered the temple, the Ark of the Covenant was smuggled out of Jerusalem beforehand and safely transferred by Solomon's son, Melenicus, at the risk of his life.

Melenico took the Ark of the Covenant to the home of his mother, Queen Sheba, and stayed there, becoming the founder of the Ethiopian dynasty. Today, orthodox Ethiopian Christians believe that the Ark of the Covenant is kept in the Church of St. Mary in Ashim. However, the sacred place where the Ark of the Covenant was kept according to legend was guarded by a priest and could not be entered by outsiders, so the existence of the Ark of the Covenant cannot be confirmed.

"To the small town of Huji in Ethiopia!" (To be continued.) )