Early date of Mark’s Gospel: what Dead Sea Scrolls say?

7Q5 & Mark’s Gospel: this fragment of papyrus is the 5th manuscript found in 7th Qumran cave. About it has been unleashed a international debate between papyrologists and Bible scholars, when in in 1972 the leading scholar José O’ Callaghan has identified the text on 7Q5 as a piece of Mark’s Gospel: 6:52-53, to be exact.