THE GUARDIANS OF THE RELICS OF THE SECOND TEMPLE

Monograph prepared on the basis of a study of literary data, historical documents of the biblical period of the Second Temple and the analysis of archaeological finds and search work one of Qumran manuscripts, the so-called Copper Scroll. The author provides convincing arguments for the version of the application of crypto-system protection of information and offers candidates for the leaders and members of the group, which prepared the manuscript itself and carried out work on the burial of the relics of the Second Temple. Describes the historical circumstances preceding the beginning of the group's activities to save spiritual values and the economic prerequisites for the accumulation of fabulous wealth in the Second Temple in the early 1st century AD.