EXPLORING GOD’S LIBRARY–Ancient charred scroll Deciphered with Advanced Technology

As you may know, the effort to explore God’s Library is very much a cooperative research effort. Today’s kudos go to Dr. Robert Woodberry for this 2016 link he posted on Facebook.

I’ve included the link to the article and another link to a YouTube video by the team who used the specialized software to decipher the burned Levitical Text. First, a snippet from the article and the link for the full text.

“The charred lump of scroll sat in an archaeologist’s office, impossible to read without destroying it – until now…

By Andrew Griffin

“The text discovered in the charred Ein Gedi scroll is “100 percent identical” to the version of the Book of Leviticus that has been in use for centuries, said Dead Sea Scroll scholar Emmanuel Tov from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who participated in the study.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/scientists-finally-read-the-oldest-biblical-text-ever-found-a7323296.html

For more perspective on Digital Unwrapping of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the charred text at the University of Kentucky:

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James and Elizabeth Stephens

James and Elizabeth Stephens presently live in Southern California and have been married since 1978. In 1999, James completed a MA in Intercultural Studies specializing in Leadership Development and in 2010 Elizabeth completed an Associate in Science in Business Information Technology.

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