“This is something that we hope will also help us gain knowledge that will help us conserve the other scrolls and make sure that they survive much longer,” he says.Ĭorrection: The Dead Sea Scroll fragments were found in Israel, not in the West Bank. (Yaniv Berman/Israel Antiquities Authority)Īs a Dead Sea Scroll scholar, discovering more fragments was a dream Ableman never expected to come true.

“It looks completely new,” Ableman says, “but it turned out to be 10,500 years old, which makes it, to the best of our knowledge, the oldest complete basket ever discovered anywhere in the world.” Archaeologists also found what they believe is the world's oldest fully intact basket. Ableman says that finding the basket helps understand early human civilization since it comes before the invention of ceramics. The team also uncovered an ancient basket that was completely intact. Ableman says this shows the importance of God. In their version, the name of God is in ancient Hebrew script while the remaining text is in Greek. While the fragments that Ableman and his team found aren’t the Septuagint, he says their pieces are a reworking of it. The most famous Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible is the Septuagint. The scrolls are in Greek, which Ableman says isn't the typical language found in biblical books in the Judean deserts. The fragments were said to come from the evocatively. Another was verses from the eighth chapter of Zechariah. Published: Ma10.53pm EDT On Tuesday news broke of the discovery of fresh fragments of a nearly 2,000-year-old scroll in Israel.

One fragment turned out to be the fifth verse in chapter one of the Book of Nahum. While the scrolls are only fragments, the team managed to piece some of them together. The other reason dates back to the 1960s, when archaeologists first discovered the cave. Rappelling on the way to the Cave of Horror. I'll leave that to the expert rappellers,” he says. “Personally, it's one of the only caves I do not want to go into. The first is that the cave can only be entered by going down a steep, “frightening” cliff, he says. Ableman says there are two explanations behind the cave’s name, and it’s likely a combination of both. Privacy Policy © 1990-2023 Bible Discovery is a subsidiary of Life Lesson From The Bible (Canada) & Good Friends inc. To retrieve the scrolls, a team rappelled down a cliff and entered the Cave of Horror. Bible Discovery is an international media ministry invested in educating, edifying and encouraging the believer to think and boldly explore the Truth. “But some of them, we did manage to kind of put a puzzle together.” “These are tiny scraps,” Ableman says of the scrolls. Oren Ableman, a Dead Sea Scrolls scholar and a member of the Israel Antiquities Authority, and his team of archeologists found the ancient biblical texts in caves in Israel. (Orit Kuslansky Rosengarten/Israel Antiquities Authority) This article is more than 1 year old.Īrchaeologists discovered new pieces of the Dead Sea Scrolls for the first time in more than six decades. Part of the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets scroll.

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