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May 6, 2009
2000 Year Old Hebrew Scroll
Two looters apparently tried to sell a Hebrew document dated "Year 4 to the destruction of Israel." According to the article, that would be either 74 CE or 138 CE. I would guess the lat(t)er.
Here is a little of what the Haaretz article says,
The rare historical document, handwritten in Hebrew on papyrus paper and estimated to be more than 2,000 years old, is a bill surrendering property rights. The document was written by a widow named Miryam Ben Yaakov, and hails from a period in which the people of Israel were exiled from the area and very few Jews remained.[snip]
The IAA estimated that the seized document was indeed authentic, but the final verdict will arrive only after it returns from a series of laboratory tests.
The document was apparently stolen from a cave within Israel's borders where antiquities raiders were digging.
These kinds of finds are always abnormally important. It's too bad that it came to light at the hands of criminals.
Posted by Duane Smith at May 6, 2009 1:47 PM | Read more on Hebrew Bible |
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