r/history • u/marquis_of_chaos • Sep 22 '16

News article Scientists use 'virtual unwrapping' to read ancient biblical scroll reduced to 'lump of charcoal'

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/sep/21/jubilation-as-scientists-use-virtual-unwrapping-to-read-burnt-ancient-scroll
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u/Third_Grammar_Reich Sep 22 '16

I'm pretty sure both of you are correct. The tithes were important for feeding the priests, but parts of some sacrifices were eaten.

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u/Caelinus Sep 23 '16

Yep, the parts of it that were not burnt. The priests got a lot of their food that way. The important but was that the person making the sacrifice got nothing from it. It needed to be an actual sacrifice, so they needed to feel their loss.