Unlocking the Secret Scroll: The Copper Scroll Tree of Knowledge

By Michael Hearns

This is the Story of how I unlocked the secret of the Copper Scroll treasure list, which was found in a cave by the Dead Sea.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Michael Hearns
• Release date: May 21, 2020
• ISBN: 9781916284425

Michael Hearns

My biography is perhaps best illustrated by the discoveries I have made while researching the numbers in the Bible. What went unknown was where the numbers were an integral part of a giant jigsaw, which a mystic sage had devised to explain the concept of the transition from this earthly world to a mystical dominion called heaven. During my research work I detected the formulas, which brought the scientific gateways into focus. To read about these scientific gateways to the heavens go to my website www.sevenbiblewonders.comMichael

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Unlocking the Secret Scroll

The Copper Scroll Tree of Knowledge

Copyright © Unlocking the Secret Scroll, Michael Hearns, 2020

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ISBN 9781916284425

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Michael Hearns

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 The Numbers on the Copper Scroll

Chapter 2 Mathematical Checksums

Chapter 3 Unveiling a Sophisticated Calendar on the Copper Scroll

Chapter 4 The Image of a Cross on the Copper Scroll

Chapter 5 The Sabbath of Seven Years Decoded from Peace Offerings

Chapter 6 Calendar Indices Encrypted in Tithe Offerings

Chapter 7 The Philosophy Behind Biblical Time Keeping

Chapter 8 The Time of the Long Dominion of 12,000 Years

Chapter 9 The Duplicate Inventory is Revealed

Conclusion

Bibliography

Notes

Tables

Table 1a: The Cubits and treasures on Columns 1 to 6 of the Copper Scroll

Table 1b: The Cubits and treasures on Columns 7 to 12 on the Copper Scroll

Table 2: A Sample of the Checksums

Table 3: The Nucleus of the Calendar Formula

Table 4: The Deciphered Calendar Equation

Table 5: The years and Intercalary Days of the Calendar Timetable

Table 6: The Fifteen Calendar Periods between the Greek letters

Table 7: Rows 48 and 49

Table 8: Checksum Totals in Green, Calendar Periods in Yellow on the Copper Scroll

Introduction

Unsolved mysteries captivate the minds of archaeologists who toil with expectation at the frontiers of ancient history. One such mystery was the copper scroll and it has puzzled the greatest minds in the biblical world since it was found in a cave by the Dead Sea in 1952. Unlike the other scrolls with their religious topics, the copper scroll listed 64 sites where vast quantities of gold and silver treasures were secretly buried way back in antiquity. It was not surprising that the lure of buried treasures excited imaginations and many archaeological expeditions were held looking to find the valuables. However, those expeditions all ended in failure as the descriptions of where the treasures were hidden were totally vague or just nonsensical.

At the outset, some scholars were of the opinion that the lists of treasures on the copper scroll were just folklore myth and they could point to the incredulous enormity of the weights in talents to justify their stance. However, many scholars held that the treasures were real and could only have come from the temple in Jerusalem before it was destroyed by the Romans.¹

On first reading a translation of the copper scroll I was surprised to find that it was full of numbers. Those numbers were listed as the depths to dig in cubits at many of the various sites to find specific weights of gold and silver treasures in the biblical units of talents. It was even more surprising that those numbers with the cubits and the talents were listed very precisely. After all, would it have mattered to poor nomadic treasure hunters that there were exactly 300 talents of gold at a particular site when a few nuggets would make them rich and happy? Those treasure hunters would move mountains at the mention of hidden gold and silver valuables so the depth to dig in cubits also seemed unnecessary. On further scrutiny, I found that there were no cubits listed at one third of the sites and no weights of treasures at nine of the sites. That suggested that the number of cubits and talents at the other sites were highly suspect.

Those peculiarities led me to question the traditional views by scholars about the copper scroll such as that the treasures could only have come from the temple in Jerusalem before it was destroyed by the Romans. This did not make sense for how could priests under impending siege find the time to weigh the treasures and do it so precisely and then sneak the colossal tonnage through the enemy lines? There were further cracks with the treasures having come from the temple because at least thirteen of the gold and silver weights were supposed to be buried in tombs including a duplicate inventory. This position was sacrilegious in Jewish practices because tombs were unclean and would defile the treasures making them untouchable.

For all those reasons the numbers themselves became the focus of my attention. While studying the translation by Emile Puech I noticed that he had identified two sets of extra numbers on the copper scroll. What was between those numbers was to have an effect that was as dramatic as the apple that fell on Newton’s head - there was a plus + sign between those extra numbers. The + signs indicated that the numbers were to be added together and that introduced the concept of mathematical checksums. With checksums, the individual numbers are added up and the total enables people in the future to check and see if it had remained the same and thus verify the individual numbers had retained their original values intact. It is known that Jewish scribes used the principle of checksums when copying sacred documents because the rules for transcribing were laid down in the Talmud, which is an ancient record of discussion pertaining to Jewish law, ethics, customs and history.²

The use of checksums at first seemed somewhat far-fetched but the temptation to investigate if the scribes of the copper scroll had future proofed the numbers was overwhelming. Checksums are usually arranged in mini-groups and also, a given recognisable number was needed to be identifiable in the future as a possible checksum total. It was not difficult to identify possible mini-groups because there were formed by seven sets of Greek letters dispersed between the numbers on the first four columns of the copper scroll and that was one of the requirements for checksums. The next step was to see if I could identify what recognisable totals the scribes would have used if they did apply checksums. While the Greek letters did form the numbers into mini-groups, there was one exception where the number 65 was on its own between the Greek letters HN and OE. That number was recognisable as the first age of Enoch at 65 years in Genesis Chapter 5. Recognisable totals were required for the checksums totals and the number of Enoch’s final age at 365 years was certainly a number that stood out for it was the