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Work on scrolls brings history alive.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 09-JUN-02 		Format: Online - approximately 693 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Work on scrolls brings history alive.(Higher Education)(Daniel Falk: The religious studies professor looks at the document to learn about the history of prayer.)

Article Excerpt
Byline: GREG BOLT The Register-Guard

The bits of parchment were little more than blackened flakes, their ancient words hardly visible behind centuries of smoky decay.

But to Daniel Falk, they were prayers out of the past whose words few had read since before the birth of Christ. And they were a bit of light on a dim stretch of history that has fascinated the University of Oregon professor of religious studies, who is one of a relatively small number of international scholars invited to translate portions of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Falk was interested in the scrolls as part of his doctoral research...

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