Secrets of the Cave of Letters

by Richard A. Freund

"One of the most spectacular archaeological discoveries in Israel took place in 1960, when the legendary Yigael Yadin exavated a cave in the Dead Sea area subsequently called the "Cave of Letters." Located near the site of the famous Dead Sea Scrolls, the cave contained the largest cache of ancient personal correspondence and documents ever uncovered in Israel. Among the evidence were letters from Bar Kokhba, a messianic leader of a Jewish rebellion against the Romans in the second century, whose meteoric rise and fall in some ways parallel the life of Jesus of Nazareth." "In 1999,...

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