Not the usual religious debate, but I thought others might find this interesting...

[On the Road]

4. This is Great --

I am really hoping there is more material out there to be found. The bulk of the temple treasure was probably discovered a long time ago by the Romans, or perhaps recovered later by Jews over the next few decades. But who knows?

As far as a cache of Temple Documents, the Dead Sea Scrolls themselves may be a big part of it. There is an interpretation that rather than being the product of a putative Essene monastery at Qumran, they were taken from the Temple at Jerusalem and brought to the desert for safekeeping. What is fascinating to me is that given the location and time period, it would seem very likely that Jesus' brother James handled many of these very scrolls.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Wrote_The_Dead_Sea_Scrolls%3F

One of the documents that tie the scrolls to Jerusalem is the Copper Scroll, which purports to be a kind of verbal treasure map indicating where caches of valuables have been hidden. As you might expect, scholars have had little success finding some of these places ("forty paces north of the tree by the well at Zeke's house in Jericho&quot . Some scholars think it's a fiction, but the makers of the scroll thought went to great trouble and expense to create the scroll from metal and have the text painstakingly copied. Some of the mistakes suggest that the writer did not know Hebrew, which would be a way of keeping the artisan in the dark.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_Scroll