Ever since the Dead Sea Scrolls were accidentally discovered over 70 years ago in a cave in Israel, they have been a source of fascination. The scrolls are famous for containing the oldest manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible. But exactly who wrote these important documents has been a mystery. Now, thanks to the use of technology, experts might be getting closer to understanding some of the backgrounds of these enigmatic texts. In a new study, researchers at the University of Groningen's Qumran Institute have put together a robust investigation into the paleography – the study of old handwriting – of one of the scrolls. Through a series of painstaking processes including digitization, machine-reading, and statistical analysis, the team proposes that two scribes with very similar handwriting probably wrote the two halves of the manuscript. The scroll in question, 1QIsaa, is a large manuscript and one of seven found near the Dead Sea at Qumran, Israel in 1946. The 2,000-year-old scroll preserves the 66 chapters of the Hebrew Bible’s Book of Isaiah and predates other Hebrew manuscripts of Isaiah by over 1,000 years. Source: Reuters, 📷Walla News 🇮🇱 IF YOU LOVE ISRAEL - SHARE NEWSRAEL! 🇮🇱