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Metropolitan Athanasius Yeshue Samuel with a Dead Sea scroll, 1949

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Metropolitan Athanasius Yeshue Samuel with a Dead Sea scroll, 1949

Place
Washington, D.C. · today United States
Date
1949
Clergy

Athanasius Yeshue Samuel, Syriac Orthodox Metropolitan of Jerusalem, in a hood embroidered with crosses and a pectoral cross, points to an unrolled Dead Sea scroll beside three men at the Library of Congress. The scrolls he had bought were on exhibition there from 23 October to 6 November 1949.

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Source

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division

Library of Congress. Photoduplication Service · No known restrictions on publication.

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