Preview — The Living Book of the Dead Scrolls · Volume Two

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Meet the Book

The fragments of the scrolls laid out on the scholars' table — original plate made for this edition

JOHN THE BAPTIST

John the Baptist presents this book His voice for this preview — 46 seconds

Now hear the book itself open Chapter Eight — The Thanksgiving Hymns · the book's own first 90 seconds

“Now, in this second volume, the scrolls themselves, one by one — their songs, their commentaries, their copper and their temple…”

That is how the second volume opens — the jars are open, and the shelf is walked scroll by scroll. Press Next to step into the middle of the book.

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From the Middle — Chapter Ten: The Copper Scroll

The Copper Scroll — original plate made for this edition

JOHN THE BAPTIST

The Copper Scroll From Chapter Ten, deep inside the book — 90 seconds of the full narration

Halfway along the shelf stands the strangest scroll of all: a treasure map beaten into copper, naming sixty-four hidden hoards of gold and silver whose key has never been found. This passage comes from the middle of the volume: behind it lie the Hymns and the Commentaries; ahead of it, the Temple Scroll, thirty thousand pieces, and the forty-year lock. The book only grows from here.

Press Next to see everything that is inside the whole book.

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What’s Inside

The Living Book of the Dead Scrolls · Volume Two cover

Volume Two — “The Scrolls Themselves and the Forty-Year Lock” — complete: all 8 chapters (Chapters 8–15), 19,085 words, an original telling written for this edition — the scrolls themselves, and the forty years they spent locked away a second time.
Inside: The Thanksgiving Hymns · The Commentaries · The Copper Scroll · The Temple Scroll · The Genesis Apocryphon · The Borrowed Shelf · Thirty Thousand Pieces · The Forty-Year Lock.
1 hour 46 minutes of narration — John the Baptist himself stands in golden light in the corner of the stage and presents the findings, scroll by scroll, while the whole written telling waits in the Reading Room to follow with your eyes.
Original painted plates throughout — the fragments on the scholars' table, the copper scroll, the scrolls and their country — made for this edition, never photographs of the real scrolls.
A low desert bed beneath the voice — an original synthesized drone, canyon wind, and a sparse frame drum — and the barcode on every stage frame: scan any moment to come back to this bookstore.
Volume One — “The Discovery and the First Great Scrolls” (Chapters 1–7) — is listed separately and opens the telling.

Honesty note: this is an original ai10forever telling. We are only telling the tale — narrating the findings and the free, public-domain material of the ancient world in our own words. No modern scholar's translation or reconstruction is read or reproduced here. What is fact and what is tradition cannot always be separated across two thousand years — where the record is hard fact, the telling says so; where it is tradition, or honestly unknown — fact or fiction, we do not know — it says that too. John the Baptist is a presentation voice of that desert and that hour; he did not write these scrolls, hide them, or keep them. The pictures are original artwork — likenesses, never photographs of the real scrolls. Where a scroll survives only in fragments, this telling says what is lost before it says what survives. Editor: Franklin Langston · by ai10forever 2026.

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