Israeli archaeologists on Tuesday announced the discovery of dozens of new Dead Sea Scrolls sections about a biblical text hidden during a Jewish rebellion against Rome about 1,900 years ago, which were believed to be hidden.
Pieces of parchment bear lines of Greek text from the books of Zechariah and Nahum, and radiocarbon dated to the second century AD, according to the Israel Archaeological Authority. They are the first new scrolls found in archaeological excavations in the desert south of Jerusalem in 60 years.
The new pieces are believed to be related to pieces of parchment found in a site called “The Cave of Horror” – the name of 40 human skeletons found there during excavations in the 1960s – also of the Twelfth Minor There is a Greek rendering. Prophet. The cave is located in a remote valley in the Judean desert south of Jerusalem.
Between 132 and 136 AD, an armed Jewish bar that revolted against Rome during the reign of Emperor Hadrian was crushed to pieces in the cave during the Kochba rebellion.
The artifacts were found during an operation by the Israel Antiquities Authority in the Judean Desert to search for scrolls and other artifacts to prevent possible looting. The authority was holding a news conference on Tuesday to unveil the discovery.
The Dead Sea Scrolls, a collection of Jewish texts found in desert caves in the West Bank near Qumran in the 1940s and 1950s, are among the earliest known copies of biblical texts and documents from the third century BCE to the first century AD. Assumptions of a little understood Jewish sect.
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