In 1947 a large collection of papyrus scrolls, including the oldest known manuscript version of portions...
In 1947 a large collection of papyrus scrolls, including the oldest known manuscript version of the Old Testament, was found in a cave near the Dead Sea; they have come to be known as the “Dead Sea Scrolls”. The scroll containing the book of Isaiah was dated in 1994 using the radiocarbon technique and it was found to contain between 75% to 77% of the initial level of carbon 14. Radioactive decay is modeled by the function m (t) =...