title: The scrolls from the Dead Sea
author:  Edmund Wilson 
description: The Scrolls from the Dead Sea provides an overview of the Dead Sea Scrolls, how they were found, sold, and eventually discovered as the likely writings of the Essene sect at Qumran which spurred controversy among the earliest scholars.
zlib_text: The Wench of Woe 
  (The Spider and The Ocean) 
  (Book IV of Mage) 
  Copyright ? ?2002, 2005 By Jim Farris 
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      The Wench of Woe 
      The Spider and The Ocean 
      (Book IV of Mage) 
  
      © 2002, 2005 By 
      Jim Farris 
   
   
      
  Prologue. 
      The old man sat quietly in his rocking chair, gazing out from his porch past the beach, at the eternally
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