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https://youtu.be/xDTCN86kcQU?si=X0PBhBrHbo3BPDV2 Kipp Davis took a fellowship in 2011 to publish a private Dead Sea Scrolls collection in Norway. The collector, Martin Schøyen, owned more than 30 fragments, most of them somewhere between the size of a quarter and the size of a credit card, and pieces like that were selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars each. Within a couple of years Davis and his team could see the problem in the material itself. Lines of text curved to follow the broken edge of a fragment instead of running straight across. Letters sat crooked, as if the surface was already damaged when the ink went down. 00:00 Fake Dead Sea Scrolls in Norway 08:22 Kando and the Butterfly Fragment 19:16 Nine Forgeries and Table Salt 30:28 Losing Faith and Doubting Moses 42:09 Ketef Hinnom Silver Amulets 55:02 John Allegro Mushroom Theory Nine of Schøyen's fragments went to a physicist in Berlin for non-destructive testing, and Davis carried them there himself in his carry-on. He left the bag on the floor of the airport, realized it four minutes into a bus ride, and needed a stranger to shout at the driver in German before he could run back for it. The tests came back with high confidence that all nine were forgeries. A 3D microscope showed ink dropping into layers that had already flaked away. One fragment carried perfectly cubic salt granules that turned out to be processed table salt, which nobody was making before the 15th or 16th century. Davis's own description: it looks like somebody took a salt shaker and sprinkled salt on it. The money explains the rest. Almost all Dead Sea Scrolls material passed through the dealer Kando and later his son William, and the page-sized butterfly fragment was listed at $2 million around 2006 and later quoted at over $40 million. It has never been carbon dated. Christian institutions bought small fragments between the 1990s and 2010, including a seminary outside Dallas that paid extra for a Leviticus fragment because of the verse printed on it. Davis thinks that fragment is probably a forgery too. Davis also gets into the Harvard scholar whose Gospel of Jesus' Wife carbon dated a thousand years too late, why he stopped believing, what scholars now think about Moses and the Exodus, the oldest surviving biblical text, and where John Allegro's sacred-mushroom argument falls apart. Subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDDxLOfbgDJjip3yQFPx7Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Watch the full episode: https://www.youtube.com/@dannyjones

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