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Another version of the same story:
Report: Religious Text Kept Secret
By MARK LAVIE
.c The Associated Press
JERUSALEM (AP) - A news magazine reported Monday it has been given excerpts
of a purported 2000-year-old religious text related to the Dead Sea Scrolls
that could shed new light on the origins of Christianity and Jewish
mysticism.
The Jerusalem Report said it had no way of determining whether the text was
an elaborate hoax or one of the most important archaeological finds of the
century.
The author of the ``Angel Scroll,'' describes being taken by an angel named
Pnimea on a tour of heavenly gates, learning how to predict the future and
being taken back in time to the creation of the universe.
The 6-foot-long document has been locked away at a Benedictine monastery on
the German-Austrian border, according to three Israelis who told the magazine
they had obtained a transcript.
Benedictine monks bought the scroll from an antiquities dealer in the
Jordanian capital of Amman in the 1970s, The Report said, citing the three
Israelis.
The monks were sworn to secrecy, then assembled the fragments, photographed
the scroll and deciphered it. One of the monks, Gustave Mateus, leaked the
contents before his death in 1996, The Report was told.
Father Bargil Pixner, the Benedictine authority on the Dead Sea Scrolls,
called the report ``a lot of nonsense'' and ``sensationalism.'' He told The
Associated Press that if the Benedictines were in possession of another
scroll, ``I would know about it.''
Pixner also said Mateus was alive and well in Germany.
Still, Stephen Pfann, a leading Dead Sea Scrolls scholar who has gone over
about a quarter of the text, said the language used is similar to that of the
scrolls. If it is a forgery, said Pfann, ``it's a very good one.''
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