Ableman says this shows the importance of God. In their version, the name of God is in ancient Hebrew script while the remaining text is in Greek. While the fragments that Ableman and his team found aren’t the Septuagint, he says their pieces are a reworking of it. The most famous Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible is the Septuagint. The scrolls are in Greek, which Ableman says isn't the typical language found in biblical books in the Judean deserts. Another was verses from the eighth chapter of Zechariah. One fragment turned out to be the fifth verse in chapter one of the Book of Nahum. While the scrolls are only fragments, the team managed to piece some of them together. The other reason dates back to the 1960s, when archaeologists first discovered the cave. Rappelling on the way to the Cave of Horror.
I'll leave that to the expert rappellers,” he says.
“Personally, it's one of the only caves I do not want to go into. The first is that the cave can only be entered by going down a steep, “frightening” cliff, he says. Ableman says there are two explanations behind the cave’s name, and it’s likely a combination of both. To retrieve the scrolls, a team rappelled down a cliff and entered the Cave of Horror. “But some of them, we did manage to kind of put a puzzle together.” “These are tiny scraps,” Ableman says of the scrolls. Oren Ableman, a Dead Sea Scrolls scholar and a member of the Israel Antiquities Authority, and his team of archeologists found the ancient biblical texts in caves in Israel. (Orit Kuslansky Rosengarten/Israel Antiquities Authority) This article is more than 1 year old.Īrchaeologists discovered new pieces of the Dead Sea Scrolls for the first time in more than six decades. Part of the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets scroll.
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