![]() Now researchers have developed an algorithm that could help to unravel the different sources that contributed to individual books of the Bible. However, delineating these multiple sources has been a laborious task. Other books of the Hebrew Bible and of the New Testament are also thought to be composites. Scholars have furnished evidence that multiple writers had a hand in composing the text of the Torah. 'Ghostwriting' the Torah? New algorithm distinguishes contributors to the Old Testament with high accuracy, says Tel Aviv University research "In both Jewish and Christian traditions, Moses is considered the author of the Torah, the first five books of the Bible. 125 BCE, it is also one of the oldest of the Dead Sea Scrolls, some one thousand years older than the oldest manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible known to us before the scrolls' discovery. The 54 columns contain all 66 chapters of the Hebrew version of the biblical Book of Isaiah. It is the largest (734 mm) and best preserved of all the biblical scrolls, and the only one that is almost complete. The Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaa) is one of the original seven Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in Qumran in 1947. The discovery was made during excavations at the Tel Motza archaeological site, about 3 miles (5 kilometers) west of Jerusalem, during preparations for work on a new section of Israeli's Highway 1, the agency said in a statement. Get Your News Widget Israelis find 2,750-year-old templeĪrchaeologists have uncovered a 2,750-year-old temple near Jerusalem, along with pottery and clay figurines that suggest the site was the home base for a ritual cult, the Israeli Antiquities Authority said Wednesday (12/26/12). ![]()
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