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Scientists Reveal Biblical text from Ancient Scroll
Posted on 9/21/16 at 9:35 pm
Posted on 9/21/16 at 9:35 pm
Fixed, WSJ article.
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From a charred Hebrew scroll, researchers resurrected one of the earliest known versions of the Old Testament using a new digital reconstruction technique that may prove invaluable in revealing words from other previously unreadable finds, said scientists who plan to make the imaging software freely available.
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In research published in Science Advances Wednesday, computer analysts at the University of Kentucky in Lexington detailed the technology they used to reveal text within a roll of parchment reduced to charcoal in a burning synagogue 1,500 years ago, “virtually unwrapping” the scroll without ever actually touching the artifact.
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While important to archaeologists, the digital reconstruction technique also may prove useful for forensic experts intent on recovering words from more modern texts damaged by fire or shredding, they said. The recovery software can be used in conjunction with almost any digital scanning technique.
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The words recovered from the En-Gedi scroll, first made public by the Israel Antiquities Authority last year, are verses from the Book of Leviticus, making it the most ancient scroll from the five books of the Hebrew Torah to be found since the Dead Sea Scrolls. Religious scholars in Israel this week who analyzed the text said it is the earliest known copy of a central book of the Torah exhumed from a holy ark—one that is identical to the text printed in most versions today.
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Archaeologists unearthed the parchment scroll—little more than a sausage-sized chunk of disintegrating debris—in 1970 at the site of a Jewish village in Israel called En-Gedi. The entire town and its synagogue burned to the ground sometime around the year 600, perhaps during a military raid. The scroll was so fragile, however, that nothing at the time could be done to decipher it.
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The digital unrolling process gradually revealed five sections of the animal skin that contained about 35 lines of legible Hebrew text written in a metallic ink. The words contained only consonants and no vowels, in the practice of the oldest Hebrew script.
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“Most of the text is as readable as the original,” said Biblical studies scholar Michael Segal at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who has analyzed the scroll. “We were immediately struck that the En-Gedi scroll is identical in all details to what we call the authoritative Jewish text in use today.”
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Radiocarbon dating of the charcoal parchment performed at the Weizmann Institute and the text analysis suggest the scroll may have been composed as early as the 2nd or 3rd century—about the same time as the creation of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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“For scholars, the scroll brings the good news that the text has not changed for 2,000 years,” said Biblical linguist Emanuel Tov at Hebrew University and the former editor in chief of the international Dead Sea Scrolls Publication Project. “This is quite amazing to us.”
This post was edited on 9/21/16 at 10:07 pm
Posted on 9/21/16 at 9:40 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
That is so cool
Posted on 9/21/16 at 9:55 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
Stupid video showed me about 4 Home Depot commercials and 3 for some sort of cracker then kept looping the msn or whatever logo...
Posted on 9/21/16 at 9:56 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
Very cool stuff.
Posted on 9/21/16 at 9:58 pm to Navajo61490
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Stupid video showed me about 4 Home Depot commercials and 3 for some sort of cracker then kept looping the msn or whatever logo...
Didn't do that to me, I'll try and find another video.
Posted on 9/21/16 at 9:58 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
They read a scroll that was burned a couple thousand years ago without unrolling it. I am impressed and spooked all at the same time.
If I ever turn to a life of crime thats one more thing I have to take into consideration.
If I ever turn to a life of crime thats one more thing I have to take into consideration.
Posted on 9/21/16 at 10:04 pm to Navajo61490
The technology shown in that video is pretty amazing.
quote:I had no commercials at all. You're doing something wrong.
Stupid video showed me about 4 Home Depot commercials and 3 for some sort of cracker then kept looping the msn or whatever logo...
Posted on 9/21/16 at 10:05 pm to johnnydrama
Froze and crashed my browser.
Posted on 9/21/16 at 10:06 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
That's amazing technology.
Am I the only one wondering how in the hell isbthat happening in Kentucky of all places?
Am I the only one wondering how in the hell isbthat happening in Kentucky of all places?
Posted on 9/21/16 at 10:08 pm to Navajo61490
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Navajo61490
Fixed the link. It has an article that you can read now.
Posted on 9/21/16 at 10:12 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
I wonder if this technology can save my old porno mag collection my mother found under my bed that she wadded up and threw away.
Posted on 9/21/16 at 10:28 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
Hopefully they'll get a crack at the herculaneum scrolls.
Posted on 9/21/16 at 10:32 pm to Lima Whiskey
Imagine if they had charred remains from the fire in the Library of Alexandria...
Posted on 9/21/16 at 10:44 pm to Eric Stratton
Didn't read? Or can't comprehend words?
Posted on 9/21/16 at 11:23 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
Pretty amazing. Who the hell downvotes something like this?
Posted on 9/21/16 at 11:31 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
So they still can't eat shell fish, pork or give head.
If that's what God demands of his chosen people, I'm happily goyem.
If that's what God demands of his chosen people, I'm happily goyem.
Posted on 9/21/16 at 11:31 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
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“For scholars, the scroll brings the good news that the text has not changed for 2,000 years,”
hot damn that's impressive
Posted on 9/21/16 at 11:33 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
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charred remains from the fire in the Library of Alexandria...
not that sure of my history, but is this even possible?
Posted on 9/22/16 at 12:31 am to TigerFanInSouthland
So what did they saY
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