{"id":1634,"date":"2016-09-25T10:27:18","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T14:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/?p=1634"},"modified":"2016-09-25T10:27:18","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T14:27:18","slug":"breakthrough-1700-y-o-hebrew-scroll-discovered-to-be-bibles-leviticus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/?p=1634","title":{"rendered":"Breakthrough-1700-y-o-hebrew-scroll-discovered-to-be-bibles-leviticus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"copy-paste-block\">\n<div class=\"reporter\">By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/author\/stoyan-zaimov\/\">Stoyan Zaimov<\/a> , Christian Post Reporter<\/div>\n<div class=\"date\">September 22, 2016|3:30 pm<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-video\">\n<p>image: http:\/\/images.christianpost.com\/full\/100677\/hebrew-script.jpg<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"imgPhoto\" title=\"Hebrew script\" src=\"http:\/\/images.christianpost.com\/full\/100677\/hebrew-script.jpg\" alt=\"Hebrew script\" name=\"jpg\" \/> <small class=\"entry-credit\">(<span id=\"IL_AD1\" class=\"IL_AD\">Photo<\/span>: REUTERS\/Amir Cohen)<\/small><\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-thumb-caption\">Writings, believed to be ancient Hebrew script from the bible, is displayed on a <span id=\"IL_AD4\" class=\"IL_AD\">computer<\/span> screen at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem July 20, 2015.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>An ancient, nearly 1,700-year-old Hebrew scroll has finally been deciphered by using complex digital analysis, revealing that it contains verses from the book of Leviticus in the Bible, scientists announced in a major archaeological breakthrough.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/56196-dead-sea-scroll-virtual-unwrapping.html\" target=\"_blank\">LiveScience<\/a>\u00a0reported on Wednesday that the En-Gedi scroll, which for centuries had been unreadable due to a fire that left it charred 1,400 years ago, has now been &#8220;virtually unwrapped&#8221; by researchers at the University of Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re reading a real scroll. It hasn&#8217;t been read for millennia. Many thought it was probably impossible to read,&#8221; said Brent Seales, a professor in the computer science department at the University of Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The real joy came when [Pnina Shor, an expert with the Israel Antiquities Authority] sent me back the result of having read our first results, because then I knew not only were we seeing writing, but it was readable, because she and her team were able to identify it as a known text, and at that point, we were absolutely jubilant, I have to say,&#8221; Seales added, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/science\/2016\/09\/22\/bible-breakthrough-scientists-unlock-secrets-burned-hebrew-scroll.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News<\/a>.<br \/>\nRead more at http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/archaeology-breakthrough-1700-y-o-hebrew-scroll-discovered-to-be-bibles-leviticus-169945\/#ftLmWMkk9kMls76t.99<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"copy-paste-block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/archaeology-breakthrough-1700-y-o-hebrew-scroll-discovered-to-be-bibles-leviticus-169945\/\">http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/archaeology-breakthrough-1700-y-o-hebrew-scroll-discovered-to-be-bibles-leviticus-169945\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Stoyan Zaimov , Christian Post Reporter September 22, 2016|3:30 pm image: http:\/\/images.christianpost.com\/full\/100677\/hebrew-script.jpg (Photo: REUTERS\/Amir Cohen) Writings, believed to be ancient Hebrew script from the bible, is displayed on a computer screen at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem July 20, 2015. 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