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===Language and writing style=== The style of writing is unusual, different from the other scrolls. It is written in a style similar to [[Mishnaic]] [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]. While Hebrew is a well-known language, the majority of ancient Hebrew text in which the language is studied is generally biblical in nature, which the Copper Scroll is not. As a result, "most of the vocabulary is simply not found in the Bible or anything else we have from ancient times."<ref>{{cite web|last=Lundberg|first=Marilyn J.|title=The Copper Scroll (3Q15)|url=http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/wsrp/educational_site/dead_sea_scrolls/copperscroll.shtml|work=West Semitic Research Project|access-date=4 April 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110303234829/http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/wsrp/educational_site/dead_sea_scrolls/copperscroll.shtml|archive-date=3 March 2011}}</ref> The [[orthography]] is unusual, the script having features resulting from being written on copper with hammer and chisel. There is also the anomaly that seven of the location names are followed by a group of two or three [[Greek alphabet|Greek letters]], thought by some to represent [[Isopsephy|numerical values]].<ref>Lefkovits (1994), p. 123</ref> Also, the "clauses" within the scroll mark intriguing parallels to that of Greek inventories, from the Greek temple of Apollo.<ref name="autogenerated212">{{cite book |author=Michael Wise |author2=Martin Abegg Jr |author3=Edward Cook |title=A New Translation: The Dead Sea Scrolls|year=2005|publisher=Harper Collins Publisher|location=New York|isbn=978-0-06-076662-7|page=[https://archive.org/details/deadseascrollsne00wise/page/212 212]|url=https://archive.org/details/deadseascrollsne00wise/page/212}}</ref> This similarity to the Greek inventories, would suggest that scroll is in fact an authentic "temple inventory."<ref name="autogenerated212"/> Some scholars believe that the difficulty in deciphering the text is perhaps due to it having been copied from another original document by an illiterate scribe who did not speak the language in which the scroll was written, or at least was not well familiar. As Milik puts it, the scribe "uses the forms and ligature of the cursive script along with formal letters, and often confuses graphically several letters of the formal hand."<ref>{{cite journal|last=Milik|first=J.T|title=The Copper Document from Cave III, Qumran|journal=The Biblical Archaeologist|date=September 1956|volume=19|issue=3|pages=60β64|jstor=3209219|doi=10.2307/3209219|s2cid=165466511}}</ref> As a result, it has made translation and understanding of the text difficult.
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