{"id":229486,"date":"2021-03-16T11:45:27","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T15:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=229486"},"modified":"2021-03-16T11:45:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T15:45:30","slug":"archaeologists-announce-discovery-of-new-dead-sea-scroll-fragments-near-jerusalem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/archaeologists-announce-discovery-of-new-dead-sea-scroll-fragments-near-jerusalem\/","title":{"rendered":"Archaeologists Announce Discovery Of New Dead Sea Scroll Fragments Near Jerusalem"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Farchaeologists-announce-discovery-of-new-dead-sea-scroll-fragments-near-jerusalem%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=229486&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1287.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Archaeologists in Israel on Tuesday announced the discovery of dozens of new Dead Sea Scroll fragments that contain biblical text.<\/p>\n<p>The fragments were found in a desert cave and \u201cbelieved hidden by Jewish refugees during a Jewish revolt against Rome nearly 1,900 years ago,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/israeli-experts-announce-discovery-of-new-dead-sea-scrolls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox News<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe newly found fragments of parchment bear lines of Greek text from the books of Zechariah and Nahum and have been radiocarbon-dated to the second century A.D., according to the Israel Antiquities Authority,\u201d Fox wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Experts were able to decipher 11 lines of text from Zechariah, including the verses, \u201cThese are the things you are to do: Speak the truth to one another, render true and perfect justice in your gates. And do not contrive evil against one another, and do not love perjury, because all those are things that I hate \u2014 declares the Lord,\u201d The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/03\/16\/world\/middleeast\/dead-sea-scrolls.html\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The original Dead Sea Scrolls were found in the 1940s and 50s, also in caves, and date from the third century B.C. to the first century A.D. They contain the earliest known biblical texts.<\/p>\n<p>The newly discovered scroll fragments are the first to be found in the desert south of Jerusalem in 60 years. \u201cThe scrolls were retrieved from the Cave of Horror in the Judean Desert reserve of Nahal Hever, about 80 meters below the cliff top, by clinging to ropes, in excavations which started in 2017,\u201d Fox reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe desert team showed exceptional courage, dedication and devotion to purpose, rappelling down to caves located between heaven and earth,\u201d said Israel Hasson, the departing director of the Israel Antiquities Authority, which is the custodian of some 15,000 fragments of the scrolls.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/news\/articles\/2021-03-16\/israeli-experts-announce-discovery-of-new-dead-sea-scrolls\">offered<\/a> more information about the location of the fragments. \u201cThe roughly 80 new pieces are believed to belong to a set of parchment fragments found in a site in southern Israel known as the \u2018Cave of Horror\u2019 \u2014 named for the 40 human skeletons found there during excavations in the 1960s \u2014 that also bear a Greek rendition of the Twelve Minor Prophets, a book in the Hebrew Bible,\u201d wrote the AP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe found a textual difference that has no parallel with any other manuscript, either in Hebrew or in Greek,\u201d said Oren Ableman, a Dead Sea Scroll researcher with the Israel Antiquities Authority.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we think about the biblical text, we think about something very static. It wasn\u2019t static. There are slight differences and some of those differences are important,\u201d said Joe Uziel, head of the antiquities authority\u2019s Dead Sea Scrolls unit. \u201cEvery little piece of information that we can add, we can understand a little bit better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The excavations also turned up rare coins from approximately 2,000 years ago, a 6,000-year-old skeleton of a mummified child and what may be the oldest surviving basket in the world, made of woven reeds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe basket, complete with lid, is more than 10,500 years old, based on radiocarbon dating by Professor Elisabetta Boaretto of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, the IAA said,\u201d Fox reported.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archaeologists in Israel on Tuesday announced the discovery of dozens of new Dead Sea Scroll fragments that contain biblical text.The fragments were found in a desert cave and \u201cbelieved hidden &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2310588,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1287.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Archaeologists Announce Discovery Of New Dead Sea Scroll Fragments Near Jerusalem","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1287.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Archaeologists Announce Discovery Of New Dead Sea Scroll Fragments Near Jerusalem","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2310588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}