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Nine Dubious "Dead Sea Scrolls" Fragments from the Twenty-First Century

Kipp Davis, Ira Rabin, Ines Feldman et al., 2017. Dead Sea Discoveries 24(2), 189-228.

Material and palaeographic analysis of nine fragments that appeared on the market after 2002, concluding they are probably modern forgeries.

MYS0D484EH05GKB · mystery · click to copyMDead Sea Scrolls: dating, scribes and provenanceArticledoi: 10.1163/15685179-12341428Checked against the original0

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Davis, K., Rabin, I., Feldman, I., Krutzsch, M., Rimon, H., Justnes, Å., Elgvin, T., & Langlois, M. (2017). Nine Dubious "Dead Sea Scrolls" Fragments from the Twenty-First Century. Dead Sea Discoveries 24(2), 189-228. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685179-12341428
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