Handwriting analysis of Dead Sea Scrolls indicates text was written by multiple scribes

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Credit: Mladen Popovi?

Handwriting assessment of just one of the Dead Sea Scrolls implies the biblical textual content was likely penned by multiple scribes, who mirrored 1 another’s writing models.

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Article Title: Artificial intelligence centered writer identification generates new evidence for the unknown scribes of the Dead Sea Scrolls exemplified by the Fantastic Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaa)

Funding: ‘Mladen Popovi? Task: The Hands that Wrote the Bible Grant Selection: ERC Starting up Grant 640497 European Investigation Council https://erc.europa.eu/ The funders had no job in study style and design, data assortment and investigation, selection to publish, or preparing of the manuscript.’

Competing Pursuits: The authors have declared that no competing pursuits exist.

Post URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/post?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0249769&#13

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