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February 28, 2013

U.S. Evangelicals Pillage the West Bank

Dylan Bergeson, The Atlantic

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A line of rental cars crawled up the side of ribbed sandstone formations, mounded high like giant termite nests. In the distance, the city lights of modern Jericho twinkled on the northern horizon. In this haunted landscape where the West Bank meets the Jordan River, the Dead Sea Scrolls--the oldest-known biblical record--remained hidden for millennia.

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TAGGED: Palestine, Israel, West Bank, Evangelical Christians

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