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JERUSALEM (AP) – The charred lump of a 2,000-year-old scroll sat in an Israeli archaeologist’s storeroom for decades, too brittle to open. Now, new imaging technology has revealed what was written inside: the earliest evidence of a biblical text in its standardized form.
The passages from the Book of Leviticus, scholars say, offer the first physical evidence of what has long been believed: that the version of the Hebrew Bible used today goes back 2,000 years.
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The passages from the Book of Leviticus, scholars say, offer the first physical evidence of what has long been believed: that the version of the Hebrew Bible used today goes back 2,000 years.
More:
hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_ISRAEL_ANCIENT_SCROLL?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-09-21-14-09-14
