More on the "Tracing Scribes and Scrolls" project

RESEARCH FUNDING: EU Funding Huge Project on the Origins of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Dead Sea Scrolls were written over centuries, and now fresh analysis may shed light on material origins. How does the Egyptian papyrus industry come into the story? (Ruth Schuster, Haaretz).

In short, the new analyses of papyrus, parchment and ink adding to the growing body of paleographic studies of handwriting, codicological analysis of the physical construction of the scrolls as well as linguistic and literary evidence will hopefully suss out the source of the material for the scrolls, and possibly unveil connections between remote centers of scribal activity.

I noted this project award a couple of days ago here. But this Haaretz article has lots of additional details.

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