“The Most Ancient Hebrew Scroll since the Dead Sea Scrolls has been Deciphered”

“The Most Ancient Hebrew Scroll since the Dead Sea Scrolls has been Deciphered” February 19, 2017

 

The waterfall at En Gedi
The remarkable (and rather unexpected) biblical site known as En Gedi is located in the Judean Desert near the Dead Sea and not too terribly far from Qumran, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found. We will take our tour group to both Qumran and the Dead Sea in May. (Image from Wikimedia Commons)

 

This story is actually about eighteen months old.  But it’s still quite interesting.

 

Once upon a time, BYU’s Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, which became the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, was on the cutting edge of both Dead Sea Scrolls research and the use of technology to recover severely damaged ancient texts.  We actually had a subgroup, which I headed for a while, called the Center for the Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts.  But those days are gone.

 

Posted from Waikoloa, Hawaii

 

 


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