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The Sleeping Almanac is also a shelf of books, bedtime stories to read and mythology coloring books: gildenmyth.com/booksLast time we took the books down off a shelf in a round church in the rain, and I told you that in one country they were never lost. Tonight, the other countries. A tall red haired Scotsman who walked out of the mountains of Ethiopia with three copies of the Book of Enoch and was laughed at in London for everything else he said. A shepherd, a cliff, and a jar above the lowest water on earth. A farmer in Egypt digging for something to put on his fields, and what his spade hit. A room full of fragments the size of postage stamps, and the man with the fastest hands in the world. And a cave where, when the scraps were finally laid out and read, the oldest copy of the book turned out to say what the copyist had been saying all along. A three hour sleep story about the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Nag Hammadi library, and the strange, quiet, true way the lost books came back. Every discovery told plainly, no version chosen as fact, every claim checked against the scholarship. And at the end, why the word we have been using for two nights is the wrong word. This is Part 2 of our seed for the next season, The Lost Books. Part 1, the books the Bible left out, is on the channel now. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome 6:01 The Same Lamp 10:56 Fourteen Hundred Years of Rumour 18:08 The Scotsman and the Three Books 25:52 The Jar in the Cliff 35:26 Cave Four, and the Monk Was Right 44:38 The Feast On the Wrong Day 52:18 The Other Jar 59:21 The Sand and the Lectern 1:04:50 The Bible Among the Books 1:10:43 What Was Never Lost 1:16:30 The Long Chain of Hands 1:22:15 Goodnight. And the Three Books in the Quiet Room 1:28:38 Calm music to drift off The Sleeping Almanac retells the world's oldest myths and stories as three hour sleep stories for adults. Calm narration, a slow music bed, no sudden sounds, no mid roll ads. New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday night. If this helps you rest, subscribing helps more than you know. More to listen to and read Gildenmyth, all our stories and books: https://gildenmyth.com Inside The Home Loan, our sister podcast: https://insidethehomeloan.com The Sleeping Almanac is also a free podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sleeping-almanac/id1896899316 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033vbQDixCCfxEWvl1XFJQ Or wherever you listen: https://podcast.thesleepingalmanac.com #deadseascrolls #naghammadi #bookofenoch #lostbooks #qumran #sleepstory #bedtimestory #sleepstoriesforadults #fallasleepfast #insomnia #apocrypha #gnosticgospels #ethiopianorthodox #history #archaeology #mythology
A correction to chapter nine: about 230 of the more than 900 surviving Dead Sea Scroll manuscripts are copies of books now in the Hebrew Bible. That is roughly a quarter of the collection, rather than most of it. The caves also preserved many other Jewish religious writings.