Qumran Palimpsest?

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Secret Alias
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Qumran Palimpsest?

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“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
StephenGoranson
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Re: Qumran Palimpsest?

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Thanks for the link. I don't see indication of a palimpsest, but text revealed by technical means, one-layer, maybe. Another publication, with photos:
https://www.livescience.com/62467-hidde ... rolls.html
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Re: Qumran Palimpsest?

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Additional reports are now available by searching "Qumran paleo-Hebrew" at google news.
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