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There's two things: 1) it's the first time anyone's found anything beyond the initial discovery 2) it's in the wrong place, which is huge.
by moomin 10y ago
There's two things: 1) it's the first time anyone's found anything beyond the initial discovery 2) it's in the wrong place, which is huge.
- gpvos 10y agoThis article doesn't seem to mention that it's in the "wrong" place. (How is that defined anyway?) The HU article linked in another comment does seem to hint at that a little.
- webmaven 10y agoBasically, it's not in any of the 11 caves that the Bedouins who were selling the DSS said that the DSS came from.
- jnordwick 10y agoThey've been finding scrolls for years even as far North as Jericho. Hopefully this finally put to death the Essene theory. Norman Golb's book Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls details the findings. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Who_Wrote_The_Dead_Sea_Scrolls%3F&_%28book%29= https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Who_Wrote_The_D...