UNC Kenan Professor Jodi Magness tells us about the reported discovery in 1883 of a remarkable artifact: 15 manuscript fragments, supposedly found in a cave near the Dead Sea, older than the Dead Sea Scrolls, and containing the oldest and perhaps original copy of the book of Deuteronomy. Experts back then called it a forgery and the papers disappeared. Now a young scholar has made a persuasive case that the lost documents were genuine and the oldest known biblical manuscripts–by far. If they were real how would that change our view of the Bible.
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