The ScrollPublished by WaterBrook Press
12265 Oracle Boulevard, Suite 200Colorado Springs, Colorado 80921Scripture quotations are taken rom the Holy Bible, New International Version®,NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.The characters and events in this book are fctional, and any resemblance to actualpersons or events is coincidental.ISBN 978-0-307-72926-2ISBN 978-0-307-72927-9 (electronic)Copyright © 2011 by Grant R. Jerey and Alton L. Gansky Cover design by Mark FordCover images by Howard Kingsnorth|Stone, Imagesource, iStockphoto All rights reserved. No part o this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any ormor by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, orby any inormation storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing romthe publisher.Published in the United States by WaterBrook Multnomah, an imprint o the CrownPublishing Group, a division o Random House Inc., New York.
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and its deer colophon are registered trademarks o Random House Inc.Library o Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Jerey, Grant R.The scroll : a novel / Grant Jerey and Alton Gansky.—1st ed.p. cm.ISBN 978-0-307-72926-2—ISBN 978-0-307-72927-9 (ebk.)1. Archaeologists—Fiction. 2. Excavations (Archaeology)—Jerusalem—Fiction.3. Copper scroll—Fiction. I. Gansky, Alton. II. Title.PS3560.E436S37 2011813'.54—dc222011013966Printed in the United States o America2011—First Edition10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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P r o l o g u e
Jerusalem, June 15, 2012
D
avid Chambers raised his video camera and pointed it at a limestoneacing that had allen rom the north wall and settled at the base o the narrow tunnel. He had seen fteen such structural ailures so ar and wouldn’t be surprised to see more. He was viewing work done two millen-nia ago—work that hadn’t been seen or twenty centuries. What surprisedhim was that there wasn’t more damage. He had been in tunnels that re-quired weeks o clearing.The light o the camera illuminated the larger stones that provided thestructural support or the tunnel. At frst glance they looked like the blockshe had seen at the mouth o the passageway, ten miles back. Abovegroundsurveys indicated the rough tunnel ran almost eleven miles. On even terrain,a man could make three miles an hour. Here, things went much slower.Chambers directed the camera in a slow arc, letting the lens take inevery detail. It was his frst pass through the tunnel, and he wanted a re-cord that he could study or years to come. Archaeology had a reputation or excitement and startling discovery.Most days it was just plain hard, dirty work—labor that involved equalamounts o mind-breaking scholarship and backbreaking physical work.Scholarship, perspiration, and luck were the triplets o his science.He turned o the camera and let the blackness envelop him. A secondlater his heart rate doubled, and he could eel his blood pressure rise. Thelast sensation, he fgured, was more imagination than act, but it was realto him.
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Can an archaeological discovery change the course of human history?
Only one man knows the intricate ancient tunnels beneath Jerusalem. Can he overcome his doubts to make one last dig – a dig that could change the course of human history?
Only one man knows the intricate ancient tunnels beneath Jerusalem. Can he overcome his doubts to make one last dig – a dig that could change the course of human history?
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