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Re: SV: orion-list Sunday Times article on 'new scroll'
At 06:53 PM 11/8/99 +0100, Greg Doudna wrote:
>
>Avital Pinnick wrote answering David Washburn:
>
>> > 2. Who is supposed to have carbon dated it and where is the data?
>>
>> No idea. Greg, do you know?
>>
>This is the first I heard of this. No idea. If something was carbon
>dated then something exists. However in most cases all that a
>lab can verify is that they got a sample in the mail. But none of the
>first stories mentioned a carbon date that I saw. Now the news
>story says "it is said" to have been carbon dated. Said? By who?
Since there is no attribution in the article, I guess the only one who
knows is the journalist, Matthew Kalman of Jerusalem. (FWIW, I've never
heard of him but I can't claim to be acquainted with every English-speaking
journalist in the city.) How many labs in the world do C14 dating of scrolls?
Avital
Avital Pinnick, Ph.D. tel: 972-2-588-2063
Chief of Publications fax: 972-2-588-3584
Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Hebrew University
http://orion.mscc.huji.ac.il - DSS bibliography updated weekly
For private reply, e-mail to Avital Pinnick <mspinnik@mscc.huji.ac.il>
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