Jim Barfield is a retired criminal investigator with multiple career positions leading up to his retirement from the Lawton, Oklahoma Fire Department in August of 2005.
An avid Bible study student, Barfield studied the Dead Sea Scrolls and that study led him to information about The Copper Scroll which has descriptions of valuable treasures such as artifacts, gold, silver, gems. Legend has it that once the scroll is discovered, it will lead to the end of times.
For nearly 2,400 years the scroll laid in a cave near Khirbet Qumran high above the shores of the Dead Sea until 1952. The two deteriorating rolls lay side by side on a stone outcropping in the cave hidden, according to records, by a desparate team of holy men seeking to preserve their faith. One, a single sheet of hammered copper, the other larger roll contained two similar sheets riveted together end to end. Their barely visible text pressed into the thin copper teased those that could read it unmercifully.
Scholarly disagreements of how to open the thing bounced back and forth for five years. If the document was ever to be opened, something had to be done. Finally experts formulated a workable plan to open the scroll and the delicate task fell to Professor H. Wright Baker of Manchester University. Now, fragile as glass, the scroll would be cut into sections using a tiny precision circular saw. With great care, the process began..
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