The Dead Sea Scrolls found

The scrolls come out of the ground at Qumran — including the Great Isaiah Scroll and the older reading at Deuteronomy 32:8.

In plain words

From 1947 the Dead Sea Scrolls come out of the caves at Qumran: the Great Isaiah Scroll first, and in later finds the older reading of Deuteronomy 32:8. A text kept safe outside anyone's hands surfaces just when drift had become the standard reason to dismiss the book.

The mechanism

PRESERVATION OUTSIDE CUSTODY, DELIVERED — the text kept safe by being outside anyone's hands surfaces at the exact moment the drift objection had become the standard reason to dismiss the book

How it was checked

• EvidenceT6 PHYSICAL / MANUSCRIPT; Status: COMMITTED; a release
• Letter eraTHE REGATHERING AND THE RAIL 1947 to 1993
• Plate — Peter van der Sluijs, Cave 1 at Qumran, 2012 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_cave_of_Qumran_place_of_the_dead_Sea_Scrolls.JPG
• SourcesARCHAEOLOGY