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Hockney scrolls through Bayeux, Brideshead gets revisited and Stubbs leads the field – the week in art | Art and design

Hockney scrolls through Bayeux, Brideshead gets revisited and Stubbs leads the field – the week in art | Art and design

Published by Sam Flores

Exhibition of the week Stubbs: Portrait of a HorseGeorge Stubbs’s emotional, sublime equine portrait Whistlejacket is rightly one of the best loved paintings in the National Gallery. This exhibition takes a closer look at what makes his paintings of horses unforgettable. National Gallery, London, from 12 March to 31 May Also showing David HockneyPictures from his time living in Normandy, reflecting on the Bayeux tapestry and more. Serpentine North Gallery, London, from 12 March to 23 August Sir John Vanbrugh A look at the stunning imagination of the architect of Brideshead, sorry, Castle Howard. Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, until 28 June Deutsche Börse photography prize What makes a powerful photograph, and is the criteria changing in the AI age? See this year’s shortlisted artists including Rene Matić who recently missed out on the Turner prize. Photographers’ Gallery, London, until 7 June Sarah Morris: Snow Leopards and SkyscrapersAbstract art that comes more from the brain than the heart, marking Morris’s three decades with this gallery. White Cube Mason’s Yard, London, from 11 March to 9 …

The Dead Sea Scrolls: Discover the Secrets of the Bible’s Oldest and Strangest Texts

The Dead Sea Scrolls: Discover the Secrets of the Bible’s Oldest and Strangest Texts

Published by José Betancourt

The appear­ance of the Dead Sea Scrolls was the most impor­tant doc­u­ment dis­cov­ery of the twen­ti­eth cen­tu­ry. Yet, in some sense, they did­n’t deliv­er what many assumed to be promised with­in: that is, the basis for a com­plete revi­sion of every­thing we thought we knew about Chris­tian­i­ty. The real­i­ty of the Dead Sea Scrolls’ con­tent is less sim­ple, but also stranger — which makes it an ide­al sub­ject for the YouTube chan­nel Hochela­ga, giv­en its pen­chant for explor­ing the obscure byways of reli­gious his­to­ry. And indeed, as host Tom­mie Trelawny says in his new video above, they are the “old­est Bib­li­cal writ­ings ever found,” a sta­tus that, what­ev­er their specifics, cer­tain­ly jus­ti­fies the great scruti­ny paid to them over the past eight decades. For it was only in 1946 that the Scrolls were found, by a Bedouin shep­herd look­ing for his lost goat in a series of caves in the vicin­i­ty of ancient ruins by the Dead Sea. Or so the sto­ry goes, any­way, and Trelawny explains some of the com­pli­ca­tions that emerge when it’s exam­ined …

New AI Research Suggests that the Dead Sea Scrolls are Older than Previously Thought – OpentheWord.org

New AI Research Suggests that the Dead Sea Scrolls are Older than Previously Thought – OpentheWord.org

Published by Sam Flores

Cave 4Q, one of the 11 caves containing the Dead Sea Scrolls, located in the West Bank, Palestine Credit: Effi Schweizer, Wikipedia, Public Domain In a paper published in Plos One, researchers from Italy, Denmark and the Netherlands suggest that the Dead Sea Scrolls are older than originally thought. In fact, some may be dated back to the time they were originally written. The group came to this conclusion by using artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze the documents, Premier Christian News reports. The AI program was named Enoch after one of the Bible’s oldest patriarchs. It analyzed the different handwriting styles and patterns of 30 selected manuscripts. Additionally, the researchers used radiocarbon to re-date the selected texts. But first they removed the castor oil that had been applied when they were discovered in the 1940s and 1950s to preserve the documents. There were concerns that this oil affected the dating. Earlier studies determined that the documents ranged in date from the third century BC to the first century AD. However, the new analysis suggests that …