[dljordan]

Wouldn’t they be kind of hard to fake? You’ve got to have the right paper/parchment, the right ink and it has to be aged.

[daniel1212]

...these fragments have not all been proven to be fakes beyond doubt. Since similar tests have not been performed on authentic Dead Sea Scroll fragments and fragments of later texts from the Judean desert, a baseline for comparison hasn’t been established. As quoted in National Geographic, Emanuel Tov explains, “The report expects us to conclude that abnormalities abound without demonstrating what is normal.”