What wonderful tools these new technological advances are when it comes to something like this.
New Technologies Unravel Ancient Biblical Scroll
By Robert Swift | The Media Line
July 20, 2015
Ein Gedi Scroll Fragment (Photo: Israeli Antiquities Authority)
[Jerusalem] — A scroll once believed to be lost to the ravages of time has been virtually unraveled and analyzed by archeologists and found to contain sections of Biblical text from the Old Testament. The find was presented on Monday to journalists in Jerusalem by Israeli Antiques Authority (IAA) archeologists who struggled to contain their excitement.
The scroll was part of a collection excavated from the remains of a synagogue discovered at Ein Gedi, near the Dead Sea, in 1970. But because archeologists were unable to decipher or preserve the fragment, it was sealed away in storage.
Now, decades later with the use of the latest scanning technologies and collaborations between academics in Israel and the United States, the secrets contained in the fragment have begun to be revealed. The scroll was carbon dated, placing it in the 6th Century, and making it the oldest copy of the Bible to have been recovered after the Dead Sea Scrolls, which date back at least to the first century.
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New Technologies Unravel Ancient Biblical Scroll The Media Line
New Technologies Unravel Ancient Biblical Scroll
By Robert Swift | The Media Line
July 20, 2015
Ein Gedi Scroll Fragment (Photo: Israeli Antiquities Authority)
[Jerusalem] — A scroll once believed to be lost to the ravages of time has been virtually unraveled and analyzed by archeologists and found to contain sections of Biblical text from the Old Testament. The find was presented on Monday to journalists in Jerusalem by Israeli Antiques Authority (IAA) archeologists who struggled to contain their excitement.
The scroll was part of a collection excavated from the remains of a synagogue discovered at Ein Gedi, near the Dead Sea, in 1970. But because archeologists were unable to decipher or preserve the fragment, it was sealed away in storage.
Now, decades later with the use of the latest scanning technologies and collaborations between academics in Israel and the United States, the secrets contained in the fragment have begun to be revealed. The scroll was carbon dated, placing it in the 6th Century, and making it the oldest copy of the Bible to have been recovered after the Dead Sea Scrolls, which date back at least to the first century.
Continue reading at:
New Technologies Unravel Ancient Biblical Scroll The Media Line
