Yes. They were manipulated and only Catholic theosophical scholars were put in charge of interpreting them. This is why they have still not been published in their entirety.

John Allegro was completely ostracized for trying to fight the church on the availability of the scrolls to the public at large.

Fr. Milik was over-seer of who got to work on the scrolls.


Bad business. Vatican takes over spiritual findings again.

[link to www.johnallegro.org]


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