Get em out before the Taliban destroy them.
H/T: Jameel
Scholarly world abuzz over Jewish scrolls find
By GIL SHEFLER
12/31/2011 17:24
Ch. 2: If authenticated, historical find in Afghanistan may be on par with Cairo’s Geniza
The scholarly world is abuzz over the discovery of ancient Jewish scrolls in a cave in Afghanistan’s Samangan province.
If the scrolls are authenticated, they may be the most significant historical finding in the Jewish world since that of the Cairo Geniza in the 19th century, Channel 2 Arab affairs correspondent Ehud Ya’ari reported Friday.
“We know today about a couple of findings,” Haggai Ben- Shammai, professor emeritus of Arabic language and literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, was quoted as saying.
“In all, in my opinion, there are about 150 fragments. It may be the tip of the iceberg.”
The scrolls, which were part of a geniza – a burial site for sacred Jewish texts – date from around 1,000 years ago and are in Arabic, Judeo-Arabic and ancient Persian.
One scroll, a replica of which was shown to the cameras, was apparently a dirge written for an important person whose identity has not been determined.
They had better get it out in a hurry. Democracies who aren’t caving in to islam are the only ones who can be trusted with antiquities now.