Scholars found another version of Genesis
Christians aren’t told about the “other” first book of the Bible
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7 min readFeb 19, 2023
In 1949, a scroll found in a cave outside Bethlehem was announced to the public. Other scrolls in the ‘Dead Sea Scrolls’ could be read, but this one was fused shut.
A few words, in Aramaic, were visible. They were names from the book of Genesis. As a ‘new’ text, the scroll was called “the most important Bible discovery of modern times” — though nobody knew what it was.
In 1956, the scroll was unrolled.
It was Genesis, or like Genesis. Called the ‘Genesis Apocryphon’, the text of the scroll was revealed to be a series of first-person monologues.
Biblical figures like Lamech, Noah, and Abraham spoke their stories — voices from the beginning of the world.
The parchment was dated to the late 1st century BCE.
Page numbers suggested that what survived was the final part of a long scroll. The…
