The IAA exists to preserve antiquities but there are factions within Israeli society which think they can use archaeology to prove that their claim to the land is "genuine." It's silly of course. Whatever jewish-style culture that existed in the early 2d century was evicted by the Romans after the bar Kochba rebellion. If they think they can find additional documents hidden in caves that would be a worthwhile endeavor for them. There have been some finds made in caves from the bar Kochba period.
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But the admission that matters is that the OT is horseshit and that the earliest documents written in Hebrew - which accounts for a significant percentage of the Dead Sea Scrolls but by no means all of them, date from the 2d century BC to the first century AD. The xtian zionists hate hearing that shit. They think fucking moses wrote the pentateuch in Hebrew in the mid 2d millennium BC. And anyone who tells them otherwise must be the devil.
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But the admission that matters is that the OT is horseshit and that the earliest documents written in Hebrew - which accounts for a significant percentage of the Dead Sea Scrolls but by no means all of them, date from the 2d century BC to the first century AD. The xtian zionists hate hearing that shit. They think fucking moses wrote the pentateuch in Hebrew in the mid 2d millennium BC. And anyone who tells them otherwise must be the devil.
