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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 6883485, member: 110504&quot;]Just saw this on the BBC.&nbsp; Really amazing.&nbsp; From the one pic, the coins didn&#039;t all look familiar, but my conversance with Bar-Kochba coins is superficial at best.&nbsp; The state of preservation is phenomenal.&nbsp; </p><p>No less striking is that the scroll, with fragments from &#039;minor&#039; prophets, is all in Greek, with only the word for G-d in Hebrew.&nbsp; A serious departure, in the space of a couple of generations or so, from the Dead Sea Scrolls.&nbsp; Odd how Hellenism would have accelerated in that amount of time (granted, following the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE), having already had three centuries.&nbsp; ...Where did Aramaic go?&nbsp; Does anyone know more about what was happening linguistically around this time?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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