Daily Gleanings (25 April 2019)
Gleanings about Thesaurus linguae Latinae (TLL) and fires at the Temple Mount and Notre Dame.
Notre-Dame
Qumran Cave 12: Update 2
James VanderKam, via University
of Notre Dame](http://news.nd.edu/assets/226451/james%5Fvanderkam%5F300x350.jpg)
In a short interview published by the University of Notre Dame, James VanderKam urges caution about labeling the recent Dead Sea find as “Cave 12.” Comparisons have previously been drawn between the new find and Cave 8, which comes inside the numbering but contained no scrolls.
VanderKam comments,
In 1952, after the earliest scrolls finds, archaeologists made a survey of hundreds of caves and openings in the general vicinity of Khirbet Qumran…. Some 230 of them contained nothing of interest, but 26 housed pottery like that found in the first scrolls cave…. [G]iven the fact that other caves in the district, besides the 11 that held the Dead Sea Scrolls, contained pottery of the same sort as Qumran Cave 1, it seems a bit premature to call [the new find] Qumran Cave 12.
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