On: Hebrew University Archaeologists Find 12th Dead Sea Scrolls Cave

[themodelplumber]

Yeah, despite reading the article I don't get the HN-front-page significance. I'd be tempted to guess this is more of a PR thing than a substantive find.

[moomin → themodelplumber]

There's two things: 1) it's the first time anyone's found anything beyond the initial discovery 2) it's in the wrong place, which is huge.

[gpvos → moomin]

This article doesn't seem to mention that it's in the "wrong" place. (How is that defined anyway?) The HU article linked in another comment does seem to hint at that a little.

[webmaven → gpvos]

Basically, it's not in any of the 11 caves that the Bedouins who were selling the DSS said that the DSS came from.

[jnordwick → moomin]

They've been finding scrolls for years even as far North as Jericho. Hopefully this finally put to death the Essene theory.

Norman Golb's book Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls details the findings.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Who_Wrote_The_D...