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spin · 09-09-2008, 12:02 PM

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Originally Posted by robto

I thought I had heard years ago that there was a match between the chemical fingerprint of the ink on some of the scrolls and the ink found at Qumran. This would seem to settle the matter - at least in terms of ruling out "nothing to do with each other." So, am I wrong, or has this evidence been overturned?

Ain't heard this one before and none of my Qumran texts seems to know about it.

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Toto · 09-09-2008, 01:16 PM

I don't think that ink has a chemical fingerprint, in the CSI sense.

There is a reference here to the inkwells found at Qumran having a similar sort of ink to that used at Qumran, but this article is dated 1962.

There is a reference here to

'The Study of Ink Used at Qumran' presented with Yoram Nir-el at An International Congress The Dead Sea Scrolls - Fifty Years After Their Discovery: Major Issues and New Approaches in Jerusalem, July 20-25,1997.

This article states that there were only a few types of ink used at the time, so matching types would not show very much.

There is a long post here from Doudna on the inkwells found at Qumran.

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09-09-2008, 01:16 PM	#32
Toto Contributor Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Los Angeles area Posts: 40,549	I don't think that ink has a chemical fingerprint, in the CSI sense. There is a reference here to the inkwells found at Qumran having a similar sort of ink to that used at Qumran, but this article is dated 1962. There is a reference here to 'The Study of Ink Used at Qumran' presented with Yoram Nir-el at An International Congress The Dead Sea Scrolls - Fifty Years After Their Discovery: Major Issues and New Approaches in Jerusalem, July 20-25,1997. This article states that there were only a few types of ink used at the time, so matching types would not show very much. There is a long post here from Doudna on the inkwells found at Qumran.

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