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Posted on 07/16/2005 12:22:35 AM PDT by nickcarraway
An encounter with a Bedouin robber in a desert valley has led to what one Israeli archaeologist described as one of the most important biblical finds from the region in half a century.
Professor Chanan Eshel, an archaeologist from Bar Ilan University in Tel Aviv, said yesterday that the discovery of two fragments of nearly 2,000-year-old parchment scroll from the Dead Sea area gave hope to biblical and archaeological scholars, frustrated by a dearth of material unearthed in the region in recent years, that the Judean desert could yet yield further artefacts.
"No more scrolls have been found in the Judean desert since 1965. This encourages scholars to believe that if they bother to excavate, survey and climb they will still find things in the Judean desert. The common knowledge has been that there is nothing left to find there," Prof Eshel said. The two small pieces of brown animal skin, inscribed in Hebrew with verses from the Book of Leviticus, are said by Prof Eshel to be from "refugee" caves in Nachal Arugot, a canyon near the Dead Sea, where Jews hid from the Romans in the second century.
The scrolls are being tested by Israel's Antiquities Authority.
Prof Eshel said he was first shown the fragments last year in an abandoned police station near the Dead Sea. A Bedouin had been offered $20,000 (£11,000) on the black market and wanted an evaluation.
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Me and a friend were walking through the desert one day when we spotted something in the sand which we initially thought was a biblical scroll. It wasn't, but we knew a camel was around somewhere.
Thanks Nick, will add it to the catalog, as I have these:
Bedouin Wanders Across Biblical Manuscript
ABC News Online | 7-15-2005
Posted on 07/15/2005 9:24:34 AM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1443637/posts
Biblical scroll fragments found in Israel
AP/Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Friday, July 15, 2005 | DANIELLE HAAS
Posted on 07/15/2005 8:29:23 PM PDT by DaveLoneRanger
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1444060/posts
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Now that the price has been established...the little robber will show up with a few more. As a group, they should be worth even more than a single scroll.
I think I saw that episode of antique scroll show on PBS last week..."together, these scrolls might bring in as much as, say..."
somewhere in a cave in the desert some old beduoins are laughing their *sses off while their Mexican employees sit at rows of tables cranking out little ancient looking scrolls.
90,000 shekels.
Maybe left overs from Qumran?
Both pieces, when properly translated say "Nuke the Sand Savages".
They better not have been typed on a word processor. We've had just about enough of that stuff already!
In that part of the world, the place occupied by Mexicans over here is occupied by Yemeni's over there.
Ask any Sand Savage for Yemini jokes. Warning: Yemeni jokes tend to resemble a bad mixture of dumb jokes and hillbilly jokes.
The Book of Mormon is a witness of the divine mission of Jesus Christ. It is consistent with ancient scriptures and offers a witness that no other work contains, namely the promise in Moroni 10:4.
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