How Science Assists Biblical Archaeology - The Ketef Hinnom Scrolls and the Ein-Gedi Scroll
I love science. And I love the way that it works to provide evidence for the truth of the Bible. A few years ago (15, actually -- dang, have I been doing this that long?), I wrote a blogpost entitled Ketef Hinnom: The Most Important OT Discovery in 100 Years? about one of the most important finds in Biblical Archaeology: the Ketef Hinnom Silver Scrolls. These tiny scrolls were discovered in 1979 in a tomb in the Hinnom Valley. The scrolls have been described in an article on WatchJerusalem entitled Ketef Hinnom Scrolls: A look at the oldest biblical texts ever discovered , as follows: These scrolls were among a collection of over 1,000 objects found in a tomb on the edge of the Hinnom Valley, southwest of the Old City of Jerusalem. Made of 99 percent pure silver, one scroll measures 3.8 inches high by 1 inch wide when unrolled; the second measures only 1.5 by 0.4 inches. Professor [Gabriel] Barkay[, the scholar who discovered the scrolls,] stated these scrolls were probably worn a...