October 25, 2007

Jerusalem Tunnels were Escape Routes for Scrolls

Norman Golb speculates on the use of the recently discovered tunnel

Writing in The Daily Jewish Forward, Norman Golb opines about the use of the recently discovered tunnel that led to the pool of Siloam as one of the escape routes from Jerusalem that Josephus discussed. Golb, who has postulated that the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran were in fact a cache of scrolls that were secretly removed from Jerusalem prior to the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE., sees the tunnel as being one of the avenues for the flight of the scrolls from Jerusalem.

Topic Tags: archaeology, Dead Sea Scrolls, Jerusalem, Josephus, Norman Golb, Siloam

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by Peter Nathan

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