A Question of Dating
Talk by G. R. Driver
Professor of Semitic Philology at Oxford University
This is the first of two talks by Professor Driver on the scrolls discovered in 1947 in a cave at the north-western end of the Dead Sea. These scrolls have aroused considerable interest since their discovery and the publication of parts of them. Professor Driver discusses the various dates that have been ascribed to the scrolls and gives reasons why he places them somewhere between the second and fifth centuries A.D.