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« on: November 10, 2012, 09:21:27 pm »


Ancient Scribe Penned Manuscripts Linking Dead Sea Scrolls with Manuscripts Found at Masada in Israel

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Finding contradicts the notion that the Dead Sea Scrolls found near Qumran were part of a non-sectarian general Jewish library.
Ancient Scribe Penned Manuscripts Linking Dead Sea Scrolls with Manuscripts Found at Masada in Israel

Israeli paleographer Ada Yardeni has recently identified 50 Dead Sea scrolls found near Qumran in Israel as having been penned by the same scribe, a scribe who also penned scrolls that have been found at the Herodian mountain-top fortress of Masada, where Jewish rebel zealots made their last suicidal stand against the Romans in 73 A.D.

The subject scrolls were previously discovered in six different caves in the area of the Qumran site. In an article authored by Sidnie White Crawford and published in the November/December 2012 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review, Crawford writes that documents penned by the same scribe and found in multiple caves implies that "the scribe was a member of that sect who also copied Jewish scriptural scrolls, countering the idea that the Qumran collection was a non-sectarian ‘general Jewish’ library.” 

Crawford  also writes that Yardeni suggested that the same ancient scribe who penned these Qumran scrolls was also responsibe for an apocryphon within the Book of Joshua, recovered, not near Qumran, but at Masada. Moreover, she maintains, nine copies of a sectarian manuscript penned by this scribe were discovered in two caves at Qumran and another at Masada, contemporaneous with the Joshua Apocryphon.

Says Crawford,  “it seems likely that some manuscripts from Qumran were carried south by refugees fleeing the Roman destruction of Qumran in 68 C.E. [Masada is south of Qumran]. But that’s only a best guess.”

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