Dead Sea Scrolls: Mysterious scribe wrote eight diverse scrolls, scholars find
“The main purpose of my work has been using artificial intelligence, an extraction algorithm and statistical analyses to test 51 manuscripts which share a particular handwriting style.”
Adolfo Roitman, curator of the Dead Sea Scrolls, points at the original Isaiah Scroll, one of the Dead Sea Scrolls, inside a secured climate-controlled room in the Shrine of the Book at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem September 26, 2011.(photo credit: BAZ RATNER/REUTERS)ByROSSELLA TERCATIN