Image courtesy of Shai Halevi/Israel Antiquities Authority, fair use doctrine..
Joel Kontinen
Fragments of a biblical scroll dating back some 1900 years has been found in the deserts of Israel not far from where the Dead Sea scrolls of Qumran were found.. These documents are from the south of Israel.
“The cave's existence has been known for some time; it
gets its macabre name from 40 ancient human skeletons that were discovered
there in the 1960s. The skeletons are of people who starved to death during the
Bar Kokhba revolt, which occurred between A.D. 132 and A.D.135, when the Jewish people in the
region revolted against the Roman Empire. The revolt was crushed, with some
ancient writers claiming that over 500,000 Jews were killed and many others
deported from the region.
The biblical scrolls contain parts of the minor prophets
of Zechariah and Nahum as well as the corpse of a boy or girl and a basket that
is older than any such instrument so far. They say that the corpse is 6,00 years old and the basket 11,000 years –
thus not counting for Noah’s Flood.
Source:
Jarus, Owen, 2021, Biblical scroll discovered in 'Cave of Horror' in Israel Live Science 16 March
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