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December 14, 2007 | Comment about:  Dead Sea Scrolls Again

On Carbon Dating of Linen Shrouds:

Publication ex Orion Bibliography

Try this for a starter:

Stökl Ben Ezra, Daniel. "Old Caves and Young Caves: A Statistical Reevaluation of a Qumran Consensus." Dead Sea Discoveries 14/3 (2007) 313-333.


December 06, 2007 | Comment about:  Aleppo Codex in News

Merely Riots in 1948?

What happened to Judaism that year?
I find it interesting that one refers to riots in 1948 without pointing out that after 2000 years the modern state of Israel was granted by the British Crown

December 01, 2007 | Comment about:  Dead Sea Scrolls Again

Carbon dating of linen shrouds; different periods...?

You say that Golb's view has "been overtaken by subsequent study." 

The official Israel Antiquities Report by archaeologists Yitzhak Magen and Yuval Peleg, published in 2006 and now available on-line (see http://www.antiquities.org.il/images/shop/jsp/JSP6_Qumran_color.pdf) contains no such information, but simply endorses the Jerusalem theory without making the distinction betweer earlier and later scroll hidings that you describe.

So I'm a bit confused.  Perhaps you could provide a reference to published scientific data on these shrouds, or to some publication by the "scholars at the Hebrew University" to whom you refer, along with their names, so readers can verify this claim of yours?


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