Is That a Tiny Fragment?

There are 800 scrolls, some of them were full scrolls. The technology has just now kind of caught up to be able to magnify something like that. Some scholars believe it wasn't actually a part of whatever community was hiding the dead sea scrolls. It might have been hidden there at an earlier time and forgotten. There's only one scroll then, all the scrolls that they found that's not parchment or papyrus. And it's the per scroll, which is made of copper and a totally different writing style.

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