Ancient Scroll Fragments Found in Judean Desert

According to AP, Professor Chanan Eshel, an archaeologist from Tel Aviv’s Bar Ilan University, recovered the ancient writing-covered animal skin fragments from a Bedouin. The Professor surmises that the scrolls…

are from “refugee” caves in Nachal Arugot, a canyon near the Dead Sea where Jews hid from the Romans in the second century

The scroll fragments contain passages from Leviticus. Nothing new there, but the scroll fragments are of interest primarily because they point to the possibility of finding more complete source scrolls. Other caves in the Dead Sea area have, of course, previously yielded up The Dead Sea Scrolls, which contain, among other things, interesting apocryphal works—passages omitted from the various canons of the Bible.