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Article: SCHOLARSHIP MEETS SCIENCE IN DEAD SEA SCROLLS STUDY.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- February 1, 1999
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After a half-century of piecing together bits of the Dead Sea Scrolls found in desert caves, scholars may be reaching a point at which they have learned just about all they can from handwriting and textual analysis.
So, in an attempt to open new horizons, scientists are being brought into the field of scroll research to apply their techniques to the 2,000-year-old scriptures.
Lab technicians met with traditional text scholars and historians at a conference that ended yesterday at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was sponsored by the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
This cooperation and newfound promotion of scientific ...