Nahal Hever
Nahal Hever (
The caves
At the head of the stream are two caves, the "Cave of Letters" (מערת האיגרות), and, further up, the "Cave of Horror" (מערת האימה) in which twenty four[citation needed] human skeletons were found. The skeletons of Babatha, whose personal documents were famously discovered in the Cave of Letters, and of her son are, presumably, among them. The findings have been regarded as archaeological evidence of the Bar Kokhba revolt (132–136).[2] The sites were discovered in 1953 and investigated in 1960 and 1961 by Yigael Yadin. In 1999 and 2000 it[clarification needed] was excavated by Richard Freund of the University of Hartford.[citation needed]
Biblical manuscripts
Several fragments of ancient biblical manuscripts were found at Nahal Hever. They include portions of the
Some other biblical manuscript fragments have also been discovered, such as fromSee also
References
- ^ Canyoning website Archived 2015-02-01 at the Wayback Machine (in Hebrew)
- S2CID 164079122.
- ^ Peter W. Flint and Andrea E. Alvarez, The Preliminary Edition of the First Numbers Scroll from Nahal Hever. Archived 2017-05-10 at the Wayback Machine Bulletin for Biblical Research 9 (1999), pp.137-143, Institute for Biblical Research
- ^ Nahal Hever 'Numbers'
- ^ Nahal Hever Deuteronomy, at Dead Sea Scrolls Bible Translations. Accessed 26 September 2020.