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Monday, May 25, 2020

The Times of Israel, 20 May 2020 - ‘Shabbat’ revealed: UK’s ‘blank’ Dead Sea Scroll fragments yield a holy surprise

Title:
‘Shabbat’ revealed: UK’s ‘blank’ Dead Sea Scroll fragments yield a holy surprise

Author:
Amanda Borschel-Dan

Published:
The Times of Israel, 20 May 2020
https://www.timesofisrael.com/shabbat-revealed-uks-blank-dead-sea-scroll-fragments-yield-a-holy-surprise/

From the article:
"The University of Manchester’s Reed Collection was just a pile of 2,000-year-old leather scraps from Qumran — until Prof. Joan Taylor spotted one ghostly letter, then another…

A British university has discovered that “blank” pieces of leather parchment taken from the famed Qumran caves are not blank at all.  

Instead, they are now considered to be authentic Dead Sea Scroll fragments — the only ones in Britain.