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FRIDAY, APRIL 12 1991

Tel Aviv (JTA) — A labor-
atory in Zurich employing a
new, improved method of
carbon-14 dating has pin-
pointed the age of the Dead
Sea Scrolls to between the
econd century BCE and the
beginning of the first cen-
tury C.E., according to
Magen Broshi, curator of the
Shrine of the Book at the
Israel Museum, where some
of the most important scrolls
are kept.
The scientific finding
should put an end to a 40-
year challenge to the scrolls'
antiquity by some wary
scholars.
The determination of the
amount of radioactive car-
bon-14 remaining in the
scrolls means they were
written between 2,000 and
2,200 years ago.
"This is how it should be. I
have waited for this a long
time," said Dr. Samuel Iwry,
a scholar at Johns Hopkins
University who specializes
in the formative years of the
group called the New
Covenantlers, or the
Essenes, the people believed
to have written the scrolls.
Mr. Broshi said the Zurich
lab is one of only three in the
world using the new dating
method. Its tests marked the
first time the carbon-14
method was used to date the
famous scrolls.
Of more than 800 scrolls
found, only two refer to
historic events which sug-
gest a date.
Previous estimates of their
age were based mainly on
paleography, the study of
ancient writing. On this
basis, scholars had deduced
that the scrolls were written
over the course of three-and-
half centuries, from the mid-
third century BCE to the eve
of the Roman conquest, or 68
C.E.
Mr. Broshi said the Israeli
government's Department of
Antiquities decided last
summer to submit samples
of scroll material to the
Swiss firm for dating.
According to Antiquities
Department officials, the
findings submitted by the
laboratory two weeks ago
correlated with the known
dates of the dated documents
and the estimated dates of
the Dead Sea Scrolls.
The scrolls, probably the
most momentous archae-
ological find of the century,
were stumbled upon by a
young Arab shepherd in
1947 in the caves at Kumran
on the shores of the Dead
Sea.

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