[BlackVeil]

The article says that this scroll dates to the 3rd or 4th century - they don't say if this is BC or AD. It is certainly very ancient.

[BlackVeil]

GGG ping.

[KOZ.]

Drink....more....ovaltine

[Vendome]

[Theoria]

The NYT has a nice writeup.

[Seeing More Clearly Now]

The way it’s worded and the sequence from earlier century to the next century suggests they mean “C.E.” (Common Era, aka A.D.)

[Nifster]

From the article

“But contents of the En-Gedi scroll were long thought to be lost forever, because it was destroyed in a fire in the 600AD and was impossible to touch without dissolving into chunks of ash.”

So it would be AD

[wtd]

"We were immediately struck by the fact that in these passages, the En-Gedi Leviticus scroll is identical in all of its details both regarding its letter and section division to what we call the Masoretic text, the authoritative Jewish text until today," Dr Segal said."

Doubt one would be able to suggest the same scholarly consistency with the contents of

• The Lost Archive, missing for half a century, a cache of photos spurs sensitive research on Islam's holy text

  By ANDREW HIGGINS. Updated Jan. 12, 2008 11:59 p.m. ET -- Munich, Germany

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More details:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_eng.aspx?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=4134

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