X-rays of 1,700-Year-Old Burned Scroll Are Identical to Modern Bible
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It contained portions of chapters 1 and 2 of the biblical book of Leviticus.
Michael Segal, professor of biblical studies at Hebrew University who worked
on the project, described what was written on the scroll:
The text of the two chapters of Leviticus that have been uncovered so far is letter-to-letter
identical to the Masoretic text that we know from medieval manuscripts. Similarly, in these
two chapters, the section/paragraph divisions are in identical locations to the medieval
[Masoretic Text].
Radiocarbon results dated the scroll to around a.d. 300, but Dr. Ada Yardeni, after
analyzing the handwriting of the text, dated it earlier, to around the first century a.d.
The importance of the discovery lies in the fact that the scroll is identical to the Masoretic
Text. Dead Sea Scroll scholar Emanuel Tov, who participated in the project, said, “This is
quite amazing for us. In 2,000 years, this text has not changed.”