The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception: Michael Baigent and Richard LeighThe oldest Biblical manuscripts in existence, the Dead Sea Scrolls were found in caves near Jerusalem in 1947, only to be kept a tightly held secret for nearly fifty more years, until the Huntington Library unleashed a storm of controversy in 1991 by releasing copies of the Scrolls. Baigent and Leigh set out to discover how a small elite of orthodox biblical scholars gained control over the Scrolls, allowing access to no outsiders and issuing a strict