and here i'd of thought those caves would have been licked clean by now...
Posted on 03/17/2021 11:52:46 AM PDT by Olog-hai
On a day that saw the Israel Antiquities Authority unveil the first Bible scroll fragments found in decades and numerous other dazzling artifacts from the “Cave of Horror” above the Dead Sea — including a huge 10,500-year-old complete woven basket, the oldest in the world — perhaps the most extraordinary news is that there are another 20 promising caves, holding untold potential treasures, that have yet to be excavated.
That means the dozens of fragments shown to the public on Tuesday could mark the beginning of an exciting new era of discovery, 60 years after the last major scroll finds.
Since 2017, the IAA has spearheaded an ambitious survey of some 500 caves in the Judean Desert in an unprecedentedly wide-ranging and physically daring operation involving rappelling down rockfaces and setting up work camps on sheer cliffs. […]
In the operation to date, Amir Ganor, the head of the IAA’s anti-theft unit, told this reporter at a buzzing media event in the IAA’s Jerusalem office, most of the 600-plus Judean Desert caves have been mapped using drone technology and hi-tech mapping. That work, he said, has revealed 20 caves “with the potential for good artifacts” that will hopefully be carefully excavated in phase two of the project. And another 25 percent of the desert still needs to be surveyed in the first phase. …
(Excerpt) Read more at timesofisrael.com ...
and here i'd of thought those caves would have been licked clean by now...
New translations discovered seem to say “Trump’s fault”.
If the archeologists haven’t gotten to them by now, the grave robbers and pot hunters have.
Let me know when they find Jeremiah’s Deed.................
Anyone interested in making it possible for our descendants to experience a similar thrill 5,000 years from now, please FReepmail me.
Let me guess, we’ll find that Jesus was Crucified at Trump Tower in Jerusalem because Trump accused him of spreading “fake gospel”? /sarc
i’m just surprised there’s anything there for them to find at all...
Naw, these are O-L-D; they say, “Bush’s fault.”
We assume they are all about the Twelve Prophets and similar scrolls we know about.
What if a surprising new find is made?
I just heard on a discussion on the radio about how the inclusion and exclusion of books in the various Bibles took place. Around 300 CE the books like Enoch were taken out despite being commonly accepted at one time.
There are seven books in the Catholic Bible — Baruch, Judith, 1 and 2 Maccabees, Sirach, Tobit and Wisdom — that are not included in the Protestant version (or the Jewish one. These books are referred to as the deuterocanonical books.
Over hundreds of years, the Jews accepted the ones known as the 24 books in the Hebrew Holy Scriptures known as the Tanach (Torah,Prophets,Writings). Called the Old Testament by non-Jews.
Interesting fact in the discussion I heard: the Bible is now “a closed book.” “Even if a provable new find of a further book is made, it cannot be accepted in the closed Bible.”
That’s the part I thought of when I saw new finds were possible. Probably just more variations on the earlier finds, but we don’t know for sure, do we?
10,000 years, eh?
That predates any abrahamic time table, and some asiatic ones, too!!
Still waitng for an intact Roman library to be excavated that contains the History of the Etruscans.
Well, it is from the Times of Israel.
So am I. Grave robbers, pot hunters, and antiquity thieves are persistent and ingenious. After the original find, how did they miss these caves or anything in them?
I’m reminded about reading excerpts from new agencies 60 years claiming how the dead sea scroll find would invalidate the Bible. Only to find out the scrolls augmented the Word. Liberal outlets now will do the same. As what Solomon said: “there’s nothing new under the sun.”
Must've been left behind by the previous owners/residents.
Also found 6k year old skeleton in a blanket.
Basket pics here:
“Kilroy Was Here!”
What is Jeremiah’s Deed?
Only Jesus Christ himself could make such a decree. Hoever, the more time goes on, the more challenging it gets to prove the provanence of a newly found ancient text, even if it were found in cave in Qumran.
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