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At 10:48  8/25/96 -7, Dave Washburn wrote:
>Stephen Carlson wrote:
>> However, I believe that the C-14 dating of the DSS have shown that the
>> old paleographical dating may have been off by a century.  Paleography
>> too has its drawbacks.
>
>It's my understanding that Carbon-14 dating of some Dead Sea scrolls 
>basically confirmed the accuracy of the paleographical datings that 
>had been done.  Do you know of NT manuscripts that have been C-14 
>dated that gave the results your describe?

I was referring to the doubts raised on IOUDAIOS-L last year about
the paleographical dating of the "Herodian" script in the DSS (as
far as I know the radiocarbon dating of the other DSS samples confirmed
the paleography quite well).  For example, the 1QpHab dated to 104-43
BCE, but the Herodian script ranges from 30 BCE - 70 CE.  (The other
sample in the Herodian script, 4Q171, dated to 22-78 CE.)  See
http://www.lehigh.edu/pub/listserv/ioudaios-l/archives/9508c and 9510b
for the discussion on IOUDAIOS-L.

I don't know anything about the radiocarbon dating of NT mss (7Q5 wasn't
tested ;-).

Stephen Carlson
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