ABOUT JIM BARFIELD Director, The Copper Scroll Project The Copper Scroll has more prophecy in the first line than all the other non-Biblical texts put together. Full name: Jimmy Don Barfield I Director, The Copper Scroll Project Produced 300 page document proving ample evidence and research for findings. Retired Federal Police Officer Award-winning arson investigator Nationally and Internationally Self-proclaimed archeologist Army Scout Pilot Jim Barfield is an award winning arson investigator who has turned his investigative skills from the ruins of criminal arson to the ancient ruins of Qumran in the Judean Desert of Israel. Jim’s professional careers as an Army Scout Pilot, Helicopter Test Pilot, Training, Advising and Counseling Officer and Award winning Arson Investigator for Oklahoma and Internationally. His training seems an odd combination to prepare a man to solve the mystery of the Copper Scroll but many in the Israel Antiquities Authority believe he has done it. Jim has spent the last nine years trying to get the Israeli Officials to let him finish a superficial excavation conducted at Qumran based on his Copper Scroll Project research in April of 2009. Jim Barfield believes the Ark of the Covenant is in Qumran, the area of the Judean Desert where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found. In 1952, a fragile scroll made of copper was discovered in a cave above the Dead Sea at Qumran. The Copper Scroll is materially unique in that it was written on thin, hammered copper, rather than the less durable papyrus or parchment, which were the materials used for all of the other scrolls. Jim Barfield, founder and director of The Copper Scroll Project, believes he has found in the enigmatic Copper Scroll the key to the location of the cave where the Ark of the Covenant is hidden, along with the Tabernacle in the Wilderness and the Altar of Incense. The Copper Scroll, he believes, also shows the locations of 56 additional sites where vast hoards of sacred treasures are buried — including tons of Temple items made of gold and silver from the Temple of Solomon. Jim is a retired criminal investigator with multiple career positions leading up to his retirement from the Lawton, Oklahoma Fire Department in August of 2005. During his years as a firefighter, Jim had evenings and weekends to dig deep into his favorite pass time, hobby and personal interest, Bible study. That passion eventually led him to the Dead Sea Scrolls where he came across the l