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Bible scroll from Bar Kochba era discovered in Judean Desert
Arutz Sheva ^ | 16/3/21

Posted on 03/16/2021 4:27:19 AM PDT by Eleutheria5

“These are the things you are to do: Speak the truth to one another, render true and perfect justice in your gates. And do not contrive evil against one another, and do not love perjury, because all those are things that I hate—declares the Lord.”

These verses, from Zechariah 8:16–17, were discovered in a cave where Jewish refugees hid almost 1900 years ago. The verses, written on dozens of parchment fragments were discovered in a complex and challenging national-archaeological operation undertaken by the Israel Antiquities Authority on the cliffs of the Judean Desert, since 2017, in order to prevent antiquities looting.

The historic discovery comes 60 years after the last discovery of biblical scrolls in archaeological excavations. In addition to the scroll fragments, the operation uncovered additional extraordinary finds from various periods: a cache of rare coins from the days of Bar-Kokhba, a 6,000 year-old skeleton of a child – likely female, wrapped in a cloth and mummified, and a large complete basket dating back 10,500 years, likely the oldest in the world.

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The scroll fragments, which bear verses from the books of the prophets Zechariah and Nahum and are written in Greek, were retrieved from the Cave of Horror in the Judean Desert reserve’s Nahal Hever by clinging to ropes between heaven and earth. The cave, roughly 80 meters below the cliff top, is flanked by gorges and can only be reached by rappelling precariously down the sheer cliff.

Additional finds left behind by the Jewish rebels who fled to the caves at the end of the Bar Kokhba Revolt include a cache of coins from the Revolt bearing Jewish symbols such as a harp and a date palm, arrow- and spear-heads, woven fabric, sandals and even lice combs.

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1 posted on 03/16/2021 4:27:19 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
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To: Eleutheria5

This is an amazing discovery!


2 posted on 03/16/2021 4:38:43 AM PDT by Guenevere (When the foundations are being destroyed what can the righteous do)
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To: Eleutheria5

Amazing finds!


3 posted on 03/16/2021 4:39:26 AM PDT by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: Eleutheria5

Wow...10,500yr old basket.

Good article.


4 posted on 03/16/2021 4:51:27 AM PDT by Adder ("Can you be more stupid?" is a question, not a challenge.)
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To: Eleutheria5

the bar kochkba and kitos wars were such a waste of effort and lives


5 posted on 03/16/2021 4:53:33 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: Eleutheria5

You can’t dig an outhouse in that region without finding proof of the Scriptures


6 posted on 03/16/2021 4:57:35 AM PDT by cyclotic (Live your life in such a way that they hate you as much as they hated Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Eleutheria5

What’s fascinating is the skeleton of the 6,000 y/o child. Is this little girl Antediluvian? Why was she kept (she must have some notable significance)?


7 posted on 03/16/2021 5:13:11 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Eleutheria5
“The cave, roughly 80 meters below the cliff top, is flanked by gorges and can only be reached by rappelling precariously down the sheer cliff.”

Think how hard this must have been back then. What sort of ropes were available?

8 posted on 03/16/2021 5:45:58 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (The Weak Never Started, The Cowards fail along the way, Only the Strong Survive)
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To: Eleutheria5

bkmk


9 posted on 03/16/2021 5:53:33 AM PDT by sauropod (Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Ropes, knots, both were a well-developed technology at that point.


10 posted on 03/16/2021 6:49:37 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: Eleutheria5

Was it from the Judean Peoples Front or The Peoples Front of Judea?


11 posted on 03/16/2021 6:50:16 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: one guy in new jersey
You are right. I looked up the history of rope-making and there is evidence that Neanderthals made rope 40,000 years ago! The first specialized tools made to make rope were found in Egypt. "Egyptian rope dates back to 4000 to 3500 BC and was generally made of water reed fibres. Other rope in antiquity was made from the fibres of date palms, flax, grass, papyrus, leather, or animal hair."

Still, you have to hand it to them...climbing that mountain with long ropes and then rappelling 250 feet down the cliff face to hide objects in that cave. Wow.

Here's a page from the "User's Manual for Rope Making, v1.6"


12 posted on 03/16/2021 6:59:16 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (The Weak Never Started, The Cowards fail along the way, Only the Strong Survive)
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13 posted on 03/16/2021 7:07:03 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Coins with a harp? Must be from Ireland.


14 posted on 03/16/2021 7:17:01 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

It sounds like they were hiding both people and stuff in those caves. Then somebody forgot where the caves were, or that people were hiding there too, or ran out of rope, and, OOPS! The cave-hiders all shriveled into the human version of beef jerkey.


15 posted on 03/16/2021 7:41:11 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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16 posted on 03/17/2021 8:16:11 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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