{"id":2824,"date":"2017-02-09T16:05:23","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T13:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/news\/2017\/02\/09\/new-dead-sea-scrolls-cave-discovered\/"},"modified":"2022-06-28T21:54:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T18:54:15","slug":"new-dead-sea-scrolls-cave-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/new-dead-sea-scrolls-cave-discovered\/","title":{"rendered":"New Dead Sea Scrolls cave discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"

Archaeologists have found a cave that once housed Dead Sea scrolls in a cliff in the Judean desert – the first such discovery in over 60 years.<\/span><\/p>\n

Israel’s Hebrew University said the ancient parchments were missing from the cave, and were probably looted by Bedouin people in the 1950s.<\/span><\/p>\n

Storage jars, fragments of a scroll wrapping, and a leather tying string were found at the site.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Dead Sea scrolls date from as early as the 4th Century BC.<\/span><\/p>\n

The priceless records include more than 800 documents written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek, mostly on animal skin and papyrus.<\/span><\/p>\n

As well as containing the oldest copies of many biblical texts, they also include many secular writings about life in the 1st and 2nd Centuries AD.<\/span><\/p>\n

The first Dead Sea scrolls were discovered in 1947, reportedly by a young Bedouin shepherd hunting for a lost sheep in Qumran, on the modern-day West Bank.<\/span><\/p>\n