High on the hill above one of the caves of Qumran is a rough rock statue of a camel. When a Bedouin shepherd boy discovered the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1948 the first one was sold for something like $10. Later, when the significance of the find was realized, his Bedouin family mocked the boy’s “stupidity” by creating a memorial camel on the hills of Qumran.
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