Posted on 01/20/2010 4:23:29 AM PST by Schnucki
After a decade of intense laboratory tests, a Danish archaeochemist has found a way to enable scientists to precisely date the Dead Sea Scrolls, the ownership of which is currently a bone of contention between Israel and Jordan, according to videnskab.dk.
The Dead Sea Scrolls and other ancient documents were discovered between 1947 and 1956 in caves near the Qumran Wadi northwest of the Dead Sea.
Treatment of the rolls has included them being spread out using plant oil, which in turn made precise carbon dating of the scrolls almost impossible.
A Danish archaeochemist and an international team of researchers, have, however now found a chemical method to remove the oil without harming the parchment of the scrolls, and thus allowing precise carbon dating.
“For more than a decade we’ve been saying that there was no point in dating the scrolls before we found a method to remove the oil. Now we have found just such a method,” Associate Professor and Archaeochemist Kaare Lund Rasmussen of the University of Southern Denmark tells videnskab.dk.
Carbon dating tests of the scrolls were carried out in the 1990s by the Zurich Institute of Technology and the University of Arizona, but precise dating has remained controversial.
It is not yet clear when a new set of carbon dating tests will be carried out.
Dead Sea Scrolls dating...another new method.
I once had a date that was like a dead sea scroll.
Just based on the decay of the writing parchment, the age should be obvious. The Muslims want to discredit their discovery probably because they have this hypothesis that the bible was somehow corrupted and manipulated in order to justify the Quran’s numerous contradictions with it.
GMTA!
You dated Helen Thomas, too ?
How did YOU remove her oil?
Mark
They could have just put a piece in a vacuum chamber for an extended period of time. The oil would have been drawn out and the piece could have been dated.......
Helen Thomas? We are talking about dead sea scrolls, not dead sea trolls.
“How did YOU remove her oil?”
Someone else pumped it, not me.
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Ambiguous title ping.
I’m not currently dating anyone, myself.
An exhibit of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible is opening tomorrow in Milwaukee. It will run several months. THe exhibit was put together by our museam curators; it is not a traveling exhibit. So, you’ll have to come to Milwaukee to see it.
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