Posted on 05/23/2015 12:49:47 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
JERUSALEM — One of the earliest known copies of the Ten Commandments was written in soot on a strip of goatskin found among the trove of biblical material known as the Dead Sea Scrolls, widely considered to be one of the great archaeological finds of the 20th century.
Penned on parchment by an unknown scribe more than 2,000 years ago, the scroll fragment is one of humanity’s most precious documents — and so fragile that its custodians rarely permit it to be moved from the secure vault where it rests in complete darkness.
But for 14 days over the next seven months, the Ten Commandments scroll, known to scholars as 4Q41, will make a rare public appearance at the Israel Museum as part of a new exhibit called “A Brief History of Humankind,” a show based on the international best-selling book by Israeli polymath Yuval Noah Harari.
The exhibit chronicles humanity’s narrative arc by pairing cutting-edge modern art from the museum’s extensive collection alongside the display of 14 artifacts: the earliest-dated stone tools; the earliest evidence of man-made fire; the earliest known evidence of a family burial; the world’s oldest complete sickle — plus the Ten Commandments. It ends with Albert Einstein’s handwritten 1912 manuscript for the Special Theory of Relativity, including the formula E=mc 2 . . .
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“......for 14 days over the next seven months, the Ten Commandments scroll, known to scholars as 4Q41, will make a rare public appearance at the Israel Museum as part of a new exhibit called “A Brief History of Humankind,”......
What, no Quran?
Bet the muzzies would love to get their hands on those documents. There is going to be need for some serious security during that expo and I am certain Israel is well prepared.
Of all those exhibits, I believe I would rather see this one than any of the others. Like no other, It truly gives Humanity and civilization "roots".
Too bad America's liberals and homo-activists can't see and accept the truths of the fantastic depth and self-consistency of our Judaeo-Christian underpinnings!
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And -- I must admit that my own company is named after those microliths imbedded in that ancient sickle... '-)
I think sadly, the typical leftist is confined to far more base thought patterns. Things along the lines of "Just exactly what is that rash" or "Why does it burn when I [fill in the blanks with just about anything]".
If I recall correctly the one in the Shrine of the Book in Jerusalem was dated at appox 200 BC.
The idea that it (that very same scroll with the verses later called chapter 53 included within) was in Israel and being read and used at the same time as Jesus stood and preached in the Temple physically some short distance away. Yeah that is precious to behold and consider, the stones are crying out, this generation is without excuse,
The words in the “Great Isaiah Scroll” are nearly identical to what we read today. It’s WONDERFUL.
***But for 14 days over the next seven months, the Ten Commandments scroll, known to scholars as 4Q41, will make a rare public appearance at the Israel Museum***
Will the atheists protest and demand it be destroyed?
Which movie had Moses coming down Mt. Sinai with 15 Commandments made on rocks, and after he said, I have 15 commandments, he dropped a rock and it broke, then he said, make it 10...I wonder what the 5 commandments were lost was?
The Arab name is Musa. If you say, “Hal anti Musa,” you are asking a male if he’s Moses. None of the words is ‘is.’ It’s the construction of the sentence, though.
Factoid of the morning.
You saw the Dead Sea Scrolls?
You beat me to it. Mel Brook’s “History of the World”.
kidding aside,
I suspect that both tablets had all Ten Commandments,
Yes...they are housed in a lovely museum in Jerusalem called “The Shrine of the Book”. It is “off the beaten tourist trail” but there they are.
Would be so cool to see it.
I got to see the full traveling exhibition some years ago, right here in little old Grand Rapids. It was an interesting way to burn off an hour (including the standing in line), but pretty dull overall. The most interesting stuff was a description of the past conservation efforts, each one in succession designed to fix problems caused by the previous ones. :’)
Be nice if they provided a literal translation of this “version,” if indeed it is a version.
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