And it seems to be an Aramaic that fits with that of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
For example, comparing a carefully retro-translated Aramaic Mark with the larger sample of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Ziad al-Saad, head of Jordan's antiquities department, has said this could be the biggest find since the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947.
Casey had studied the Dead Sea Scrolls extensively, and drew upon them to make the case that most of Mark was written originally in Aramaic.
Those arguments were reopened by the Dead Sea Scrolls, whose discovery 50 years ago provided a huge body of evidence on the history of monotheism.
The written evidence is thin to non-existent, and the import of the Dead Sea Scrolls, one of the few sources for the period that is mainly in a Semitic language, is hotly contested.
He will view the Dead Sea Scrolls, which point to an ancient Jewish link to Israel, and he will inspect an Iron Dome battery, a missile-defense system that Israel set up with U.S. help.
Other Google Cultural Institute projects have included showcasing the Dead Sea Scrolls, presenting thousands of works of art online through the Art Project, and the digitization of the Yad Vashem Holocaust materials.
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As an object, the Constitution has more in common with the Dead Sea Scrolls than with what we now think of as writing: pixels floating on a screen, words suspended in a digital cloud, bubbles of text.
When U.S. President Barack Obama arrives in Israel on March 20th for an official state visit to the richly historic country, his itinerary will include a visit to the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, a stop at the Israel Museum to see the Dead Sea Scrolls, and a close-up look at a missile defense battery.
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The Commandments are one of the scrolls, which were discovered by Bedouins in desert caves near the Dead Sea in the late 1940s and 1950s.
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