Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls?

Smithsonian magazine ^ | January 2010 | Andrew Lawler

[SunkenCiv]

For his part, Peleg believes Qumran went through several distinct stages. As the morning heat mounts, he leads me up a steep ridge above the site, where a channel hewn into the rock brought water into the settlement. From our high perch, he points out the foundations of a massive tower that once commanded a fine view of the sea to the east toward today's Jordan. "Qumran was a military post around 100 B.C.," he says. "We are one day from Jerusalem, and it fortified the northeast shore of the Dead Sea." Other forts from this era are scattered among the rocky crags above the sea. This was a period when the Nabateans -- the eastern rivals of Rome -- threatened Judea. But Peleg says that once the Romans conquered the region, in 63 B.C., there was no further need for such bases. He believes out-of-work Judean soldiers and local families may have turned the military encampment to peaceful purposes, building a modest aqueduct that emptied into deep rectangular pools so that fine clay for making pots could settle. "Not every pool with steps is a ritual bath," he points out. He thinks the former soldiers built eight kilns to produce pottery for the markets of Ein Gedi and Jericho, grew dates and possibly made perfume -- until the Romans leveled the place during the Jewish insurrection.

[SunkenCiv]

Some past, related GGG topics about the Dead Sea Scrolls:

• Archaeologists Claim Essenes Never wrote Dead Sea Scrolls
• Archaeologists Challenge Link Between Dead Sea Scrolls and Ancient Sect
• Remote latrine reconfirms the presence of Essene sect at Qumran
• Latrines of the Essenes?
• Warriors Once Occupied Dead Sea Scrolls Site
• Qumran scrolls view challenged (Dead Sea Scrolls)

Charles Gadda posted these (and I guess nothing else):

• Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit misleads public?
• Dead Sea Scrolls at the San Diego Natural History Museum: the Christian fundamentalist connection
• Stephen Spielberg Holocaust foundation gives $100,000 for biased Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit
• Jesus, Judas, and the Dead Sea Scrolls: peddling religious sensationalism in America

Dead Sea Scrolls keyword.

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[SunkenCiv]

keywords "deadseascrolls" "qumran" and "essenes" sorted chrono, duplicates removed:

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• DNA to reveal source of Dead Sea Scrolls
• DNA to reveal source of Dead Sea Scrolls
• Solving a Riddle Written in Silver
• High-tech review confirms pedigree of early Bible source
• Recent News! They discover proof that Atlantis did not submerge complete but only one part...
• UHa professor shares ‘Secrets of the Cave of Letters'
• Bits of Biblical Past, Scroll fragments, Gutenberg Bible page [highlight display in High Point NC]
• Dead Sea Scrolls Scholar celebrates $1.4 million dollar grant with local community
• Biblical scroll fragments found in Israel
• Biblical Scroll Found in Desert
• Dead Sea Scrolls photographer John Trever dies
• Dead Sea Scrolls Scholar John Trever Dies
• Christianity Before Christianity
• Fighter jets destroy ten buildings in Lebanese capital
• Archaeologists Challenge Link Between Dead Sea Scrolls and Ancient Sect
• The Dead Sea Scrolls: Twenty Questions and Answers 2006 (LDS Caucus)
• Analyzing Dead Sea Scrolls evolves from carbon to DNA
• Latrines of the Essenes?
• Toilet Evidence Links Dead Sea Scrolls To Sect (Essenes)
• The Chinese connection (to the Dead Sea Scrolls)
• The Hidden Latrines of The Essenes
• Ancient toilet may be new evidence of Jewish sect
• Pope: Christ is the true sacrificial lamb of the Last Supper
• Pope Notes Hypothesis on Date of Passover - Says Christ Likely Followed Essene Calendar
• A lively debate over the Dead Sea Scrolls
• Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit misleads public?
• Warriors Once Occupied Dead Sea Scrolls Site
• Qumran scrolls view challenged (Dead Sea Scrolls)
• Dead Sea Scrolls at the San Diego Natural History Museum: the Christian fundamentalist connection
• LDS Perspectives On The Dead Sea Scrolls (LDS Caucus)
• Stephen Spielberg Holocaust foundation gives $100,000 for biased Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit
• DNA and the Dead Sea Scrolls how do the pieces fit!
• Challenging History: The Dead Sea Scrolls
• UK forces Israel to remove W. Bank pic
• Israel Surrenders to British Censorship of Israeli Tourism Ad
• The Salome No One Knows
• Dead Sea tablet 'casts doubt' on death and resurrection of Jesus
• Israel to Put Dead Sea Scrolls on the Internet
• Dead Sea Scrolls to Hit the Internet
• The Old Testament Speaks Today - LDS (Open)
• Melchizedek Priesthood of LDS and Dead Sea Scrolls Perspectives (OPEN)
• Scholar: The Essenes, Dead Sea Scroll 'authors,' never existed
• Scholar: The Essenes, Dead Sea Scroll 'authors,' never existed
• The Abraham Story: An Introduction LDS (Open)
• Dead Sea Scrolls stir storm at ROM
• Prof explores journey of Dead Sea Scrolls
• Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls?

[mountainlion]

Dead Sea Scrolls and the Smithsonian, I”ll pass just like the previous post on smith onion.

[Quix]

THANKS.

[bmwcyle]

Jim Thompson

[SWAMPSNIPER]

The Dead Sea Scroller?

[SunkenCiv]

Megan Gambino: What drew you to this story? Can you describe its genesis a bit?	Andrew Lawler: It all began with a toilet. A Smithsonian editor asked me about the recent find of what one archaeologist claimed was a latrine at Qumran. Next thing I knew, I was bumping across the Judean hills in a jeep. But as with everything involving this site, there is no agreement on whether there was an indoor loo!

[Revolting cat!]

Don’t look at me, I didn’t!

[RegulatorCountry]

What plausible origin would there be, outside of the Essenes?

[SunkenCiv]

Allium want for Christmas is my two front teeth.

[SunkenCiv]

My pleasure.

[SunkenCiv]

He has an alibi.

[SunkenCiv]

Essene a bad moon risin’.

[supremedoctrine]

It was either Clifford Irving.....or Joe Klein.....

[SunkenCiv]

The scrolls were smuggled out of Jerusalem and stashed during one of the Roman Wars / Jewish Wars. The only trace of the Essenes is in a single account of some hermits who lived in small caves along the Dead Sea (described in Josephus I think). The multi-storey building at Qumran was used as a working manorial farm, hotel, and maybe a whorehouse at different times during its ancient existence.

copper scroll treasure map

Google

[SunkenCiv]

You’ve got guilt written all over your in some kind of early script.

[MindBender26]

Michael Rivero and Eschior worked on it together.

[hellbender]

the recent find of what one archaeologist claimed was a latrine at Qumran

Maybe they found this kind of scroll?

[bmwcyle]

They have trouble remembering their names.