The Copper Scroll Incident

Living as an exile in Alqosh, Iraq, the Old Testament prophet Nahum writes the last two "chapters" of his Old Testament prophecy on a Copper Scroll and hides the scroll in a secret catacomb, with the explicit instruction that it is not to be revealed until the "end times." This prophecy is discovered in the seventh century by a bishop named Nestorius. Realizing that the "end times" are still centuries in the future, he instructs one of his followers, Rabban Mar Hormizd to build a monastery ...