Well, new to you, anyway. The 2000 year-old scraps of animal skin were found in a canyon near the Dead Sea, where Jewish revolutionaries hid out from the Romans in the second century (C.E.). They’re hand-printed in Hebrew with verses from the Book of Leviticus, sort of the “spiritual rulebook” of the Pentateuch. “Not very sexy” says blogger Ed Cook, but this adds to the likelyhood that the scroll isn’t a fake.
The fragments haven’t been completely authenticated yet, but those who like to get down and dirty with old stuff like the brainy dudes at Paleojudaica and Codex
have more in-depth repoorts.
Photo: AP.