AI and the Great Isaiah Scroll
A 2021 report from the journal PLOS One tells how researchers from the University of Groningen used AI technology to detect very minute differences in the style, curvature, and shape of letters in the Great Isaiah Scroll of the Dead Sea Scrolls (DDS). Scholars have dated the scroll to the second century BCE (before the common era, or BC before the birth of Christ). The AI scan found two different scribes, one who did the first half and another who finished it. That does not mean that these two scribes authored the scroll. Scholars argue about how many Isaiahs contributed to the writings of the book. A strong argument could be made for at least two, meaning that one or more of Isaiah’s followers or disciples may have written in his name. Critics, of course, will say all so-called “prophecies” are just reports after an event has happened. The trouble with all of that historical critique is that there are incredibly specific prophecies of the coming Messiah, Jesus Ch...
