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A Catastrophic rise in the oceans sea level occured approximately between the years 40 BC to 100 AD. as a result of an abnormal changing world climate. One piece of evidence for this occurence was a sudden and abnormal change of the Dead Sea level during this period, and consists of various morphological data, and dendrochronology. The various Dead Scrolls were found at these high watermarks possibly stowed away as a protection from the rising sea, rather than the general theory that their owners were hiding from the Roman armies . It may also not be a coincidence that Ygal Yadin found in precisely the same caves, artifacts from another, pagan age two thousand years earlier, when a similar rise of the sea level is estimated to have occured.
The Dead Sea acts rather like a barometer. Normally the total quantity of catchment area water draining into the Dead Sea, equals the quantity of evaporated water over a given seasonal period. Since the Sea is a confined body of water, and since its surface area hardly changes at different sea levels, an increase or a decrease in catchment water draining into it, will only be reflected in a change of sea level. Thus the Dead Sea may provide us with quite an accurate indication of rainfall in any annual season.
Curve of Dead Sea levels between c 100 BC and 100 AD shows
an abnormal rise
of nearly 70 meters above the average sealevel
During the first century BCE the Dead Sea rose
dramatically from a norm of approx
minus -390m to a high of minus -330m [below Mediterranean sea level]From
morphological data gathered and historical documentation[Cippora Klein
1986] a graph of the Sea level could be constructed
Ref: Cippora Klein : Fluctuations of the Dead Sea and climatic
fluctuations in Erez-Israel during Historical times [submitted
to the Hebrew University April 1986
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