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Qumran (1996) is a novel by Eliette Abécassis.

Abstract

A thriller about a stolen Dead Sea Scroll and the secret it contains about the life and death of Jesus. In the Jerusalem of 1999, the year 5759 as the Jewish calendar, the Orthodox bishop Hosea appears crucified on a large wooden cross on the inside of an old church. The secrecy with which the Israeli authorities try to conceal the grisly crime proves that the event goes beyond the work of a psychopath. The victim was in possession of the Dead Sea Scrolls, which ended in the hands of Pierre Michel and Paul Johnson , two seminarians from the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem and members, along with other non-Catholic scholars, of an international committee responsible for collecting and translating the scrolls. However, the manuscript which presumably was talking about who Jesus really was, has gone. The task of recovering the valuable writing is entrusted to the distinguished Jewish paleographer David Cohen and his son Ary. The young man had broken his relationship with his father to become a genuine Hasid, a community that through the study and strict observance of the teachings of the sacred texts expects the coming of the Messiah. However, he leaves the monastic life to accompany and protect his father. Together they embark on a perilous quest, because on them is an ominous threat: a dark and unforgiving hand that will not relent in its efforts to avoid at all costs, that the truth comes to light.

An international success. Part One of the Author's Qumran Trilogy, followed by Le trésor du Temple (2001 Abécassis), novel and La dernière tribu (2004 Abécassis), novel.