the Dead Sea Scrolls.] And some of them date back to the fourth and third century .So do you understand now why everybody was so excited?

其中一些文卷甚至能够追溯到公元前,三四世纪，所以你们应该明白为什么这么令人兴奋了吧！

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You've got to think about that and what it means and how were they transmitted and preserved without ; the means of technology, obviously, that we have today; and what was so exciting in the middle of the twentieth century was the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls.I'm sure that you've heard of them.

你们需要考虑到这点及这意味着什么,还有在没有当今我们所拥有的技术的年代,是如何传播和留传下来的;,在20世纪中期时最令人兴奋的就是发现了,死海古卷，我确定你们曾经听说过。

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The Dead Sea Scrolls were found in caves in the Judean desert.

死海古卷是在朱迪亚沙漠的山洞中发现的。

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