BAR Puzzler: Which Is the Real Dead Sea Scroll?

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One of these pictures shows the genuine Habakkuk Pesher (or commentary), one of the best preserved of the 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls that were found in the caves above Qumran in 1947. The other shows a modern reproduction of the same scroll. Can you tell which is which?

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Footnotes

See Harry Thomas Frank, “How the Dead Sea Scrolls Were Found,” BAR 01:04.