In 2020, scientists accomplished what seemed impossible—they extracted and sequenced ancient DNA from the Dead Sea Scrolls themselves by collecting microscopic parchment dust without damaging the sacred texts, and what they discovered shattered seventy years of established archaeological theory: the scrolls didn't come from one isolated sect at Qumran as scholars had believed, but from multiple communities across ancient Judea, proven by the fact that some fragments were written on cow parchment (which couldn't have come from the desert environment where cattle can't survive) while others were sheep parchment, and different versions of biblical books like Jeremiah came from different animals in different regions.
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Just skip to the very end, no content as hinted in the title. Pure clickbait.
Now we understand what is the meaning of 'word salad'!!😂
What you didn't mention was the probability that some of the Escene scribes were commercial scribes making a living copying older scrolls from outsiders for an income source which was common in Europe before printing. This would also explain some 200 BCE scrolls used as masters for copy. Qumran was such a dry wasteland that alternate methods of income like sheepherding may not have been able to support a larger population, hence commercial scribes.
Impressive to think the indication is so strong of multiple communities placing strong value on their version of their old religious texts and they had shared access to a secret site where those texts would be preserved on parchment for a long time and not be discovered by the bloody Romans.
Logically, the only statement that can be made from the genetic material is that the cow skin parchment did not originate locally
Example of how a person can repeat one sentence in hundred different way's to strech a youtube video till eternity.
Another hypothesis: one community (the Essenes) sourced their animal hides from multiple sellers. The copyists periodically shopped in the Jerusalem market, which sourced the hides from vendors all over the Roman Empire.
Did not establish that animal skins from different regions means that the writing on them were done in different regions. Animal skins could have been traded across regions before being written on.
Cannot buy parchment from different areas? Not allowed to receive scrolls from other people? "You protest too much" as Shakespeare says.
There's one simple way to check whether the scrolls have been imported blank or not. Check calligraphy, if both sheep and cow parchments show samples of the same calligraphy being used on some of them, then they've been bought blank. Otherwise, already written scrolls may have been brought in.
I would not find it that unusual that one sect also kept scrolls from other thoughts on other sects of the same religion. That is how you understand what you agree and disagree with, and how to form an argument for your beliefs. They say they thought it came from a library. A library shouldn't just have one version.
There appears to be a questionable assumption. That the Qumran area was always a desert area. Perhaps over 2000 years ago it could have sustained cattle pasture?
What a fantastic video. It is amazing how DNA can help learn about people from 2000 years ago.
Long winded, just scroll forward 80 percent, you'll still get it all, several times
Your premise that because some of the skins were from cattle, have you never heard of trade? They could easily have acquired the cattle skin from traders and used them. Pretty thin science.
Did I miss the part where they realized that the cowhides might have been imported from far away WITHOUT writing and then used by scribes? That would not mean that cows were kept where the scribes lived. It only proves that some communities could afford imported, more expensive parchment. Right? The narration seems to ramble and most of the images used have no relation to what is being (sort of) explained.
The skins could be obtained from different areas. It doesn't mean that the writings were not produced in one area.
The Narrator says; 'Para-dig-im' ! LOL!
It’s not like cows didn’t exist. Why couldn’t the cow parchments have been traded for back in the day? All because it’s cow, doesn’t necessarily equate to it having been used only in those regions. Researchers are so myopic.